[Hiring] AI/ML Platform Engineer @SAIC

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled AI/ML Platform Engineer to join our Engineering Team supporting Civilian government agency programs. This is not a role for someone who only builds AI solutions; it is a role for someone who builds the platforms that enable others to build AI solutions, across all paradigms: traditional ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.

The vision is simple: mission teams should be able to focus entirely on their problems and the solutions they want to build and trust that the platform underneath them handles the tools, infrastructure, guardrails, governance, monitoring, and technical complexity. That platform is what this team builds and operates. The right candidate takes genuine satisfaction in being the force multiplier that makes everyone around them more capable.

We welcome engineers from commercial and federal backgrounds alike. If you've built serious AI/ML platforms in industry and want to apply that experience to problems that matter at scale, in a regulated environment, partnering with cloud leaders like AWS and Databricks, this is that opportunity. The AI/ML landscape is evolving fast, and we move with it: new capabilities get evaluated, integrated, and delivered to mission teams at pace. The right candidate thrives in that environment, stays ahead of it, and drives change rather than waiting for direction.

Equally important is an FDE (Field Delivery Engineer) mindset: partner directly with customers from concept through delivery requirements, specs, design, implementation, production. One engineer, full thread, done. Proactive by default, bringing solutions rather than status, and driving to completion without being managed to it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience actively writing code, building pipelines, and architecting systems across traditional ML, GenAI, and/or agentic AI.
• Demonstrated platform-level thinking experience enabling AI/ML capabilities as a managed service for a team or organization.
• Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with core AI/ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, LangChain or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based AI/ML platforms (Databricks, SageMaker, or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with GenAI and LLM frameworks.
• Strong IaC and cloud engineering skills (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS-native services).
• Knowledge of federal security and governance standards (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
• Proven ability to work directly with customers to translate ambiguous problem statements into requirements, specs, and working solutions end to end.
• Motivated to work in regulated environments comfortable with governance requirements and security standards.

Requirements

• Enable AI/ML platform services as a governed, multi-tenant enterprise offering.
• Enable GenAI application building blocks governed access to frontier models via an AI gateway layer.
• Enable agentic AI patterns orchestration frameworks, tool/API integration, and safety guardrails.
• Enable traditional ML operationalization governed training environments and model deployment pipelines.
• Partner with customers from concept to delivery, owning the engagement end to end.
• Rapidly evaluate and integrate new platform capabilities.
• Build platform onboarding patterns and IaC templates with SSO integration.
• Develop secure API-based model access and inference endpoints.
• Document reusable patterns, frameworks, and APIs.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on impactful projects in a regulated environment.
• Collaboration with leading cloud providers like AWS and Databricks.
• Access to a dynamic and evolving AI/ML landscape.

Company Description

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion.