AI-ML Data Engineer

Job Title: AI/ML Data Engineer - Developer
Clearance Required: Public Trust – Federal Client requires US Citizenship
Work Location: Remote

Alpha Omega is seeking an AI/ML Software Development Engineer for a Remote position on our Federal program in Washington, DC.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Stay up to date on the most current developments in the generative AI space.
• Deploy machine learning models and services on cloud platforms including AWS, Google, or Azure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, researchers, and other engineers, to integrate LLMs and RAG into broader projects.
• Manage large datasets, including data cleaning, preprocessing, and transformation.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to ensure seamless data flow for model training and evaluation.
• Communicate technical concepts and project progress to non-technical stakeholders and team.
• Conduct experiments to fine-tune parameters and optimize model performance.
• Implement techniques to improve the efficiency and scalability of LLM and RAG systems.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in NLP, machine learning, and deep learning fields to inform project strategies.
• Monitor and maintain deployed models, ensuring reliability and performance benchmarks.
• Ensure code quality by following best practices in software development, including version control, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Document code and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to support team knowledge sharing and project handovers.

 

Required Qualifications:

Education:            

• Bachelor’s degree – Master’s degree preferred.

Experience/Skills:

• Federal Client requires US Citizenship.
• 10+ years of experience delivering production ready , industrial strength code, and implementing CI/CD pipelines - Not looking for someone that only has theoretical or white/board design experience.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Extensive experience with neural network architectures, particularly transformers, and NLP techniques.
• RAG and Data Engineering: - Understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and hands-on experience with implementing RAG solutions.
• Proficiency in handling and preprocessing large datasets, as well as experience with data pipelining and ETL processes.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deploying ML models.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, and CI/CD.
• Ability to design efficient algorithms for data retrieval and model training, optimizing models through Hands-on experience with the following - Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, pandas, Scikit-learn, teras and other AI/Ml libraries - JavaScript - Other object-oriented programming languages - React.js - Cloud Architecture Frameworks such as AWS.
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.
• Hands-on senior software developer with real-life experience designing, developing, and deploying large language models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions to production environments.

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $115,179- $200,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.

Application Deadline: 6/15/2025

Joining the Alpha Omega team entitles you to participate in all retirement benefits, plans of deferred compensation, health and insurance benefits, and other such benefits as set forth in the company’s policy and benefits manuals. See below, to name a few:

• PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% ves