AI Solutions Engineer – Integration & Deployment

Unissant Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise data acumen and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty integrity and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization please visit us at .

We are seeking an AI Solutions Engineer - Integration & Deployment to join our MissionWorks team and build AI-enabled solutions that address customer mission needs and internal operational priorities.

The ideal candidate is a technically strong hands-on engineer who can move from a problem statement to a working solution. This individual will build integrations AI-enabled applications automations and operational solution components while working closely with the MissionWorks Solutions Executive customer stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

This role is for an engineer who can help move promising prototypes into secure maintainable operational capability. The successful candidate can evaluate technical options identify implementation risks contribute to solution design and work across the application data cloud security and deployment layers necessary for a complete solution. They are comfortable building and learning in conditions where not every requirement is established at the outset.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design develop test and maintain AI-enabled applications integrations workflow automations and solution prototypes for MissionWorks initiatives.
• Use Python to develop test debug optimize and maintain AI-enabled software services APIs integrations and deployment components; apply C where required by the solution environment or performance needs.
• Translate approved mission and business use cases into technical designs development tasks implementation plans and working software.
• Build integrations with enterprise applications APIs cloud services data sources knowledge repositories and workflow tools.
• Support the movement of validated proof-of-concepts into secure scalable and maintainable operational capabilities.
• Participate in discovery sessions design workshops customer demonstrations user testing and technical reviews to ensure solutions address real operational needs.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs involving functionality user experience system integration data quality performance security reliability and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot application integration data and AI-solution issues; identify root causes; and recommend corrective actions.
• Contribute reusable code integration patterns technical documentation implementation playbooks and engineering standards for the MissionWorks portfolio.
• Collaborate with solution leaders software engineers data engineers cloud teams cybersecurity personnel program managers and customer stakeholders.
• Support solution estimation technical planning backlog refinement sprint execution release activities and operational handoff.
• Provide technical guidance and peer support to other engineers as appropriate.
• Stay current on practical AI engineering software development cloud integration data and secure deployment practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

• Two to five years of experience in software engineering application development AI engineering data engineering cloud engineering automation systems integration or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python is required.
• Experience with C is required or the demonstrated ability to become productive in C quickly.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying software applications APIs workflow automations integrations or data-enabled solutions.
• Experience working with APIs web services relational or NoSQL databases structured and unstructured data authentication and system integration patterns.
• Practical experience or strong exposure to generative AI large language models AI agents retrieval-augmented generation model APIs workflow orchestration intelligent-document processing machine learning or comparable AI-enabled application capabilities.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with source control testing CI/CD containerization logging debugging and technical documentation.
• Evidence of personally building and deploying production software prototypes integrations automation solutions AI agents or technical products is strongly preferred.
• Ability to evaluate an incomplete or ambiguous use case identify key assumptions and dependencies and propose a practical technical approach.
• Understanding of secure software-development practices data protection access controls and responsible AI considerations.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills with resourcefulness and a bias toward action.
• Experience in federal public-sector healthcare defense intelligence or another regulated environment is preferred.
• Experience interacting with customers users product stakeholders or multidisciplinary delivery teams is preferred.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree is required. Preferred field of study in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology Information Systems Data Science Artificial Intelligence or related field of study.
• Masters Degree in Computer Science Data Science Artificial Intelligence Engineering or a related field is preferred.

Certificates Licenses and Registrations:

• Relevant technical certifications are preferred.
• Examples may include AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Kubernetes Docker DevOps software-development data machine-learning or AI-related certifications.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts implementation options and delivery risks to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to participate effectively in customer working sessions design discussions demonstrations and technical reviews.
• Ability to write clear and concise technical content including solution documentation implementation guidance technical designs and status updates in a highly confidential manner.
• Ability to receive and provide constructive feedback in a collaborative delivery environment.

Clearance Requirements:

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance is required.
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance is desired.

Travel:

• Travel may be required based on customer program and solution-delivery needs.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly a routine office environment.
• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties responsibilities and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify add or remove duties and to assign other duties as addition where applicable and available reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)

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