AI Engineering Lead

The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a visionary AI Engineering Lead to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This role offers a unique opportunity to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for an enterprise AI transformation that strengthens national security oversight through investigative audit and inspection operations.

As the AI Engineering Lead you will architect and oversee the implementation of AI capabilities across the DHS OIG enterprise from OIGChata large language model assistantto mission-specific investigative analytics applications. You will lead technical teams define AI architecture patterns establish model governance frameworks and ensure responsible AI practices across all implementations. You will coordinate access to Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry services implement cost controls and guardrails and provide expert guidance on complex AI problem sets from prototype through production. Working within secure government cloud environments you will shape the technical vision and execution strategy for AI capabilities on a transformational program of national importance. Join us to make a meaningful impact by leading the future of AI-enabled federal oversight.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for all AI capabilities including OIGChat pilot applications and enterprise AI platform services across Azure Government and Commercial environments

Oversee secure governed access to Government-approved AI models (Azure OpenAI Azure AI Foundry commercial LLM providers) including model selection routing architecture API management and integration patterns

Lead design development and architecture of mission-specific AI applications for investigative analytics hotline analysis eDiscovery and oversight use cases from concept through production

Establish and enforce model governance cost management and responsible AI frameworks including usage monitoring token consumption tracking dashboards thresholds alerts and guardrails to prevent unauthorized use excessive cost and data leakage

Define and implement AI/ML architecture patterns that ensure all model access consumes governed authoritative datasets from the enterprise data platform in compliance with data governance classification and quality policies

Lead solution architecture and prototyping efforts providing expert guidance on complex AI problem sets technical feasibility assessments and level-of-effort estimates

Coordinate AI workload requirements and scalability planning across infrastructure data and application layers to support current and future AI use cases

Lead and coordinate AI engineering and data science resources including surge support for specialized technical analysis model development validation and production deployment

Support model auditing explainability bias detection and compliance with federal AI requirements and DHS OIG data governance policies

Collaborate with Government leadership platform engineers security specialists and product teams to align AI capabilities with mission priorities Agile delivery processes and enterprise architecture standards.

Qualifications:

Required

Bachelors degree 15 years of experience in artificial intelligence machine learning software engineering or related field; equivalencies considered (Masters 12 years; 21 years with no degree; AA 17 years)

Proven technical leadership experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale AI/ML solutions with demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and coordinate cross-functional efforts

Deep expertise in large language models (LLMs) generative AI Azure OpenAI/Azure AI services and enterprise AI platforms with understanding of model governance responsible AI and production ML operations

Extensive experience designing AI architectures including RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) model routing API patterns guardrails monitoring cost optimization and integration with enterprise data platforms

Strong background in AI/ML frameworks (LangChain Semantic Kernel TensorFlow PyTorch) Python development and cloud-native AI services with ability to provide hands-on technical guidance

Desired

Experience leading AI initiatives in federal government law enforcement investigative or national security environments with understanding of sensitive data handling ATO processes and compliance requirements

Hands-on experience with MLOps model lifecycle management AI governance frameworks and production AI monitoring and observability tools

Background in investigative analytics fraud detection text analytics NLP or mission-driven AI applications supporting oversight audit or law enforcement functions

What You Can Expect:

A culture of integrity.

At CACI we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member youll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customers missions and driven by a higher purpose to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. Youll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together we will advance our nations most critical missions build on our lengthy track record of business success and find opportunities to break new ground in your career and in our legacy.

Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including but not limited to geographic location Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates relevant prior work experience specific skills and competencies education and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare wellness financial retirement family support continuing education and time off benefits.

Since this position can be worked in more than one location the range shown is the national average for the position.

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CACI is anEqualOpportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation age national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any otherprotectedcharacteristic.