SME AI/ML Engineer
Agile Defense, Fort Meade, MD
What you will do
- Provide embedded operations support, capability integration, and rapid prototyping for AI/ML-enabled tools in support of our customer. Design and integrate LLM/agent orchestration workflows using agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
- Tune model gateway routing logic to select, evaluate, and optimize across multiple frontier and open-weight models for cost, performance, and mission fit.
- Develop and integrate RAG pipelines, vector databases, and memory services to give agents access to mission knowledge and context.
- Implement MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based tool-broker integrations so agents can safely and securely access enterprise tools and data.
- Evaluate, benchmark, and tune models and agent behaviors; build automated evaluation pipelines to track quality, safety, and performance over time.
- Partner with data scientists and mission analysts to translate research and prototypes into production-grade AI capabilities for the command.
- Implement AI governance guardrails