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Kforce Inc · 8 hours ago

AI Engineer

Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$125K/yr - $150K/yr

Kforce Inc is seeking an AI Engineer to design, train, fine-tune, and deploy AI/ML models. The role involves building secure APIs, integrating AI capabilities into business systems, and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines for model development.

ConsultingEmploymentFinancial ServicesHuman ResourcesStaffing Agency

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

AI Engineer will design, train, fine-tune, and deploy AI/ML models (LLMs, embeddings, classification models, RAG pipelines)

Build secure, scalable APIs and services to integrate AI capabilities into business systems

Design and implement agentic AI workflows that coordinate multiple models or services to achieve mission objectives

Integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic reasoning into production environments

Implement and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for model development, testing, deployment, and rollback

Design and implement containerized applications and services that can be deployed across multiple cloud environments

As an AI Engineer, you will build portable AI pipelines with containerization to ensure future-proof deployments and migration flexibility

Integrate security and compliance controls into all phases of development (DevSecOps), code scans, dependency management, vulnerability assessment, etc

Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources

Qualification

AI/ML model developmentAPI developmentCI/CD pipelinesContainerizationCompTIA Security+Azure AI certificationGoogle Cloud ML certificationInfrastructure as CodeSoft skills

Required

B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline

Equivalent experience may be accepted in lieu of formal education

Active CompTIA Security+ certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, OR similar AI certification

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information