ALTEN Technology USA · 16 hours ago
AI Lead Developer (aviation/aerospace)
Herndon, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
6+ years expALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life, and they are seeking an AI Lead Developer to lead design and development of enterprise-scale AI systems. The role involves providing technical leadership and driving AI projects from proof of concept to production while ensuring data privacy and governance.
ConsultingInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Lead design and development of enterprise-scale AI systems integrated with broader IT landscape (AWS, GCP, Palantir)
Build RAG pipelines and multi-agent systems, driving evolution toward autonomous Agentic AI
Drive AI projects from PoC to production (scaling, CI/CD, MLOps, monitoring)
Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to internal/external teams
Act as technical advisor bridging business requirements and technical feasibility
Implement AI governance guardrails for data privacy and hallucination prevention
Qualification
Required
6+ years in Software/Data Engineering with proven track record deploying ML/AI systems in production
Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline
Expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, and prompt engineering
Expert Python proficiency and modern software architecture (APIs, microservices, Kubernetes)
Proven ability to lead technical teams and present architectures to executive audiences
Preferred
Experience with GCP preferred (AWS or comparable cloud platforms acceptable). Palantir Foundry is a plus
Experience with AI Agent frameworks (LangGraph, ADK) and classical ML is a plus
Benefits
Mentorship
Career growth opportunities
Comprehensive benefits
Drug-free workplace
Company
ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company. It is a sub-organization of Alten.
501-1000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Mark Henault
Chief Technology Officer at Alten Technology
Mike Walraven
Chief Administrative Officer
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