Applied AI Research Engineer

Join our team as an Applied AI Research Engineer, where you'll focus on human-machine teaming and agentic AI. You'll design and build systems that enable warfighters, planners, analysts, and decision-makers to explore operational choices with speed, confidence, and control. This role involves developing multi-agent workflows, fine-tuning and evaluating models, building retrieval pipelines, and integrating AI with simulation and planning software. You'll work closely with AI researchers, software engineers, and defense experts to turn research ideas into production-ready capabilities.

• Design and build agentic AI systems for planning, decision support, and human-machine teaming.
• Develop AI pipelines that integrate foundation models, retrieval, simulation, external tools, and deterministic software.
• Collaborate with domain experts to translate operational workflows into AI-enabled capabilities while ensuring AI outputs remain explainable, reviewable, and under human control.
• Strong understanding of experiment design, benchmarking, and model evaluation
• Ability to move quickly from research prototype to production-quality implementation
• 3+ years building AI, machine learning, or applied research systems
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience building or deploying agentic AI systems, tool-calling workflows, or multi-step reasoning pipelines
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, or knowledge retrieval systems
• Strong Python engineering skills
• Experience with PyTorch and modern LLM tooling (Transformers, vLLM, Hugging Face, etc.)
• Experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or serving language models
• Eligible to obtain a U.S. security clearance