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Principal/Sr. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Engineer (SLM/LLMs MCP Servers)
EntegeeDallas/Fort Worth; Merrimack; Roanoke, Texas; New Hampshire; Virginia, USposted 22h ago
EMPLOYMENT
Full-time
COMPENSATION
$166k - 270k/yr
ARRANGEMENT
On-site
At a glance
Lead production AI engineering for SLMs, LLMs, and MCP servers, building developer tooling, agent integrations, and model deployments for demanding DoD and aerospace environments.
Summarized by AI from the original posting
What you'll do
- Deploy and operate open-weight models on self-managed infrastructure
- Build AI/ML coding and developer tooling using SLMs and LLMs
- Implement code retrieval, context handling, and toolchain integration
- Develop LLM orchestration, retrieval, tool-calling, and evaluation capabilities
- Deliver MCP servers and agent-to-system connectors to production users
- Integrate systems across APIs, event streams, data pipelines, and identity
- Adapt models through fine-tuning, distillation, or other techniques
Requirements
- 01U.S. citizenship for U.S. DoD work
- 02Production experience deploying and operating open-weight models on self-managed infrastructure
- 03Experience building AI/ML developer tooling with SLMs and LLMs
- 04Applied experience with LLM orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, and evaluation
- 05Experience delivering MCP servers, tool-calling integrations, or equivalent agent-to-system connectors to production users
- 06Open-source contributions or published work in the agent, MCP, or open-weight model ecosystem
- 07Systems integration experience across APIs, event streams, data pipelines, and identity
- 08Ability to deliver complex technical work to production independently
- 09Preferred aerospace, DoD, intelligence community, or federal programs experience
- 10Experience with authorization processes, accredited or air-gapped environments, and sovereign model deployment
- 11Experience with fine-tuning, distillation, or model adaptation
Skills
PythonFlaskDjangoFastAPITensorFlowKerasGoRustTypeScriptSlmLLMLangChain
Full description
ONSITE Principal / Sr. AI Software Engineer in either Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Merrimack, NH; or Roanoke VA
• **MUST have a U.S. Citizenship to work for the U.S. DoD***
Preferred industry exp: Aerospace, Avionics, DoD, Federal Programs
REQUIREMENTS:
• Ph.D., MSCS, or BSCS work 5-8+ years of AI Engineering experience
• Strong Python coding & Python/Deep Learning Frameworks (Flask, Django, FastAPI, TensorFlow, Keras)
• plus one of GoLang, RUST, or TypeScript.
• Production experience deploying and operating open-weight models on self-managed infrastructure.
• Experience building AI/ML coding or developer tooling on SLM and LLMs (LangChain, Haystack) including code retrieval, context handling, and toolchain integration.
• Applied experience with LLM orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, and evaluation.
• Model Complex Protocol (MCP) servers, tool-calling integrations, or equivalent agent-to-system connectors delivered to
• production users.
• Open source contributions or published work in the agent, MCP, or open-weight model ecosystem.
• Systems integration depth across APIs, event streams, data pipelines, and identity.
• Track record of delivering complex technical work to production without close supervision.
HIGHLY PREFERRED:
• Industry experience in the Aerospace, DoD, intelligence community, or Federal Programs.
• Authorization processes, accredited or air-gapped environments, and sovereign model
• deployment for mission users are of particular interest.
• Fine-tuning, distillation, or model adaptation with measurable results.