Peraton · 12 hours ago
Lead Associate Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI / ML) Systems Engineer
Peraton is hiring a Lead Associate Systems Engineer with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI / ML) experience to facilitate the government customer's deployment of solutions as part of a large High Performance Computing (HPC) related program. The role involves analyzing requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring the successful integration of systems engineering practices.
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Responsibilities
Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications
Analyze system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies
Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology
Incorporate new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations
Develop technical documentation
Develop system architecture and system design documentation
Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans
Interact with the government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts
Be responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility
Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. Candidate must have excellent communication and collaboration skills with a variety of stakeholder groups, ability to proactively engage with these groups to understand requirements and inform system architecture decisions
Qualification
Required
Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. Most recent polygraph must have been within the last 5 years
A High School Diploma or GED plus twelve (12) years of general systems engineering experience, OR
Bachelor's degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus seven (7) years of systems engineering experience, OR
A Master's degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus five (5) years of systems engineering experience, OR
A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus three (3) years of systems engineering experience
Experience with Cloud Architecture/ Cloud Engineer/ Platform Engineering (especially in AWS)
Experience with AI/ML system design and implementation. This should include: High-level understanding of the AI lifecycle (development, training, inference, monitoring)
Experience with ML pipeline development, model deployment, and DevOps/MLOps
Must have understanding System security and networking (particularly the implementation of system security on classified systems)
Must have understanding of data engineering and data lifecycle management
Preferred
Experience with Amazon SafeMaker is a plus
Benefits
Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents
25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap
Eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan
Company
Peraton
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
2025-09-25
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