Lead AI Solution Architect

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton is seeking an experienced AI Solution Architect to design and lead enterprise AI/ML architectures in a secure mission-focused environment. This individual will translate emerging artificial intelligence capabilities and organizational requirements into scalable production-ready solutions supporting large-scale mission applications.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across large language models (LLMs) generative AI agentic AI GPU infrastructure and MLOps with the ability to architect solutions from initial concept and prototyping through enterprise deployment and operational sustainment. This role will provide technical leadership across data science platform engineering cybersecurity infrastructure and mission teams to ensure AI/ML solutions meet performance security scalability and operational requirements.

AI/ML Architecture & Solution Design

• Design enterprise AI/ML architectures encompassing model selection inference infrastructure training pipelines MLOps and mission application integration.

• Architect and deploy LLM generative AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic AI solutions.

• Lead AI/ML solutions through the full lifecycle from prototyping and experimentation to production deployment at enterprise scale.

• Design AI/ML architectures capable of operating in classified disconnected and air-gapped environments.

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and translate new capabilities into practical production-ready solutions.

AI/ML Infrastructure & MLOps

• Design scalable GPU infrastructure leveraging NVIDIA A100/H100 or comparable GPU platforms.

• Architect model-serving and inference environments using technologies such as vLLM TensorRT and Triton.

• Design and implement MLOps pipelines using MLflow Kubeflow or comparable platforms.

• Support containerized AI/ML environments and integration with enterprise infrastructure and platforms.

• Optimize AI/ML architectures for performance scalability resource utilization cost and operational efficiency.

AI Governance Security & Responsible AI

• Develop secure and responsible approaches to AI deployment governance evaluation and lifecycle management.

• Apply AI risk management and governance principles including NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF).

• Address security authorization and operational requirements associated with deploying AI/ML capabilities in classified environments.

• Develop architectures and operational approaches supporting human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop AI capabilities.

Technology Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Evaluate commercial government and open-source AI/ML technologies to identify emerging capabilities and maintain an innovation roadmap.

• Serve as a technical liaison across data science platform engineering cybersecurity infrastructure and mission teams.

• Communicate complex AI/ML concepts architecture decisions and technical recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance while balancing innovation mission requirements security scalability and production readiness.

Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA

• 12 years of experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineering or a related technical discipline. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• 10 years of relevant experience in AI/ML architecture engineering or technical leadership.

• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying production AI/ML architectures at enterprise scale.

• Strong experience with LLM architecture transformer models Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and generative AI.

• Experience with model fine-tuning techniques including LoRA QLoRA and/or Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT).

• Experience designing and implementing GPU architectures leveraging NVIDIA A100/H100 or comparable platforms.

• Experience with model-serving and inference technologies including vLLM TensorRT and/or Triton.

• Experience designing MLOps pipelines using MLflow Kubeflow or comparable platforms.

• Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph or AutoGen.

• Demonstrated experience designing or deploying AI/ML solutions within classified disconnected or air-gapped environments.

• Ability to address AI governance security risk management and responsible AI requirements.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

• Experience deploying AI/ML workloads using Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.

• Experience with vector databases including Milvus Weaviate or pgvector.

• Experience with data engineering technologies such as Apache Spark and/or Airflow.

• Experience with model evaluation frameworks including HELM or lm-eval.

• Experience applying the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF).

• Experience with ONNX optimization for edge or distributed computing environments.

• Experience with GPU capacity planning resource optimization and cost modeling.

• Experience working with large-scale datasets including video data.

• Experience operating AI/ML solutions across multiple security domains or classification environments.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical dental vision life health savings account short/long term disability EAP parental leave 401(k) paid time off (PTO) for vacation and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at Statements