AI/ML Engineer

Location: Onsite at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, with meetings and program events in Fairfax, Virginia. Requires routine domestic and international travel of less than 50% to CONUS/OCONUS customer sites, Combatant Commands, Government installations, and other Government-directed locations.

Salary range: $125,000–$145,000 per year, commensurate with skills, qualifications, experience, and education.

Company

Everforth hirify.global is the federal segment of Everforth, delivering technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation for defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.

What you will do

• Lead the technical architecture of the PSP2 Agentic Network, covering agent orchestration, model inference, data access, APIs, platform services, network boundaries, observability, and secure deployment patterns.
• Evaluate JWICS hosting and cloud landing-zone alternatives, document tradeoffs, and turn approved approaches into reliable, supportable systems.
• Deploy and operate LLM inference and agentic AI services, including model-serving endpoints, prompt and policy controls, retrieval and tool-use integrations, scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, and failure recovery.
• Build an unclassified platform for controlled storage, discovery, access, and sharing of releasable information with approved allies and partners.
• Design and validate approved cross-domain data-transfer patterns between unclassified environments and JWICS while preserving security, release, authorization, and governance controls.
• Perform hardening, integration and performance testing, security validation, troubleshooting, operational-readiness verification, documentation, technical support, and technical direction for engineering teams.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and current DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility are required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain facility, system, enclave, and JWICS access.
• Active AWS Cloud and Security+ certifications are required.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field is required.
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience supporting technical integration, deployment, testing, fielding, or sustainment.
• Ability to work onsite at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and attend meetings and program events in Fairfax, Virginia.
• Professional experience integrating, deploying, troubleshooting, or sustaining software, data, analytics, AI-enabled, or mission-platform capabilities in DoD, Intelligence Community, or other classified Government environments.
• Experience integrating third-party software, data sources, models, agents, interfaces, or operational tools into Government platforms and working across NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, or comparable security enclaves.
• Experience troubleshooting environment configuration, software dependencies, network connectivity, access controls, interfaces, containerized applications, platform services, data pipelines, model inference, and deployment processes.
• Experience coordinating technical readiness involving network and enclave access, credentials, accounts, Government-furnished equipment and information, platform dependencies, security actions, accreditation, testing, demonstrations, pilots, fielding, and operational readiness.
• Ability to analyze secure unclassified-to-JWICS data flows, assess architecture, cybersecurity, reliability, performance, scalability, and sustainment implications, and document risks, dependencies, configurations, test results, defects, corrective actions, and deployment status.
• Familiarity with the Maven Smart System and comparable CDAO, DoD, or Intelligence Community mission platforms.
• Ability to work independently in a classified, multi-vendor, Government-led environment with evolving priorities, compressed timelines, and mission-critical requirements.
• Strong analytical, organizational, troubleshooting, risk-management, decision-making, stakeholder-coordination, briefing, written, verbal, and technical-documentation skills, including communication with Government leads, engineering teams, vendors, security personnel, platform owners, data owners, end users, and executives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, collaboration platforms, issue-tracking tools, technical documentation repositories, and Government staff-coordination tools.
• Ability and willingness to travel routinely domestically and internationally in support of site assessments, integration, testing, demonstrations, deployment, and initial operational use.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM inference, AI/ML platforms, agentic systems, model-serving endpoints, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, tool calling, guardrails, prompt management, evaluation, model monitoring, data pipelines, or AI-enabled decision support.
• Experience with approved cross-domain solutions, coalition or releasable information-sharing platforms, release controls, data tagging, metadata, auditing, partner access, and controlled dissemination paths.
• Experience with AWS Landing Zone Accelerator or comparable multi-account cloud landing-zone architectures in Government or regulated environments.
• Master's degree and active INCOSE ASEP/CSEP, Azure or Google Cloud Professional, or CISSP certifications.
• Experience supporting Combatant Commands, Service components, Joint Staff organizations, operational units, DoD headquarters, geographically distributed CONUS/OCONUS fielding, or multi-command readiness.
• Experience with Agile, DevSecOps, product-oriented, or rapid-capability-development environments; APIs, machine-to-machine exchange, authoritative data sources, interoperability frameworks, and observability.
• Familiarity with cloud or hybrid-cloud platforms, container orchestration, automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, configuration management, DoD cybersecurity, accreditation, and Authorization to Operate processes.
• Experience developing deployment plans, site-readiness assessments, integration procedures, troubleshooting guides, configuration baselines, sustainment plans, training materials, technical transition packages, or supporting capability stabilization and long-term sustainment.
• Experience with CDAO, DIA Quality Assurance Framework, Joint Staff J2 JTIM-related, or comparable operational test and workflow-validation activities.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work supporting defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.
• Environment focused on delivery excellence, innovation, accountability, and high-performing teams.
• Benefits are available; details are provided in the company's benefits information.
• Equal-opportunity employment environment.