Senior AI Data Architect Army Vantage & LLM Infrastructure US Army Support

Location: Onsite 5 days per week at Picatinny Arsenal Dover NJ (Remote work is not permitted)

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship REQUIRED; Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance

Experience Level: Senior / Lead Level

WisEngineering is seeking a Senior AI / Data Architect to lead the design deployment and optimization of end-to-end AI pipelines and data architectures supporting Department of Defense (DoD) programs at Picatinny Arsenal.

This is a high-impact hands-on architectural role. You will be responsible for bridging enterprise defense data platforms like Army Vantage (Palantir) with localized Large Language Model (LLM) infrastructure. The ideal candidate has direct experience building and deploying end-to-end AI pipelines orchestrating unstructured data ingestion and managing local LLM environments within secure DoD ecosystems.

• End-to-End AI Pipeline Deployment: Architect build and maintain production-grade AI/LLM pipelines connecting raw unstructured data sources directly to localized models and analytics platforms.

• Palantir Vantage Integration: Design and deploy AI-enabled workflows data ontologies and integrated applications within Army Vantage (Palantir) to visualize real-time operational intelligence.

• Local Infrastructure Management: Serve as the Primary Technical Lead for locally hosted LLM environments (utilizing Ollama LM Studio and the Gemma model family). Perform complex system troubleshooting parameter tuning and performance optimization.

• Advanced Prompt Engineering & Fine-Tuning: Develop test and refine deterministic prompts and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks to extract summaries classifications and actionable research from local LLMs.

• Targeted Web Scraping & Ingestion: Write and maintain robust safe Python web-scraping and extraction scripts to harvest clean and structure external and internal data needed to ground local LLMs.

• Unstructured Data Transformation: Build automated pipelines to process raw unstructured formats (PDFs web pages APIs free-text) into structured vector stores and data models.

• Security & DoD Compliance: Ensure all data pipelines web harvesting and LLM querying strictly adhere to DoD security governance and compliance guidelines.

• Enterprise Dashboards: Design build and maintain high-impact executive performance metrics and interactive dashboards using Microsoft Power BI and DAX.

• Data Tracking & Automation: Integrate Microsoft Platform environments (SharePoint Microsoft Lists) with Python automation to drive automated reporting.

• Executive Deliverables: Generate automated intelligence reports documentation and executive deliverables in PDF Word and HTML using open-source Python libraries.

• U.S. Citizenship: Required due to DoD site access and security clearance requirements.

• Palantir / Vantage Expertise: Proven hands-on experience building pipelines workflows or applications within Palantir Foundry / Army Vantage.

• AI & LLM Frameworks: Demonstrated experience building end-to-end AI pipelines RAG architectures and managing local open-source LLM environments (Ollama LM Studio LangChain/LlamaIndex Gemma).

• Core Languages: Advanced proficiency in Python 3 (Pandas NumPy BeautifulSoup/Scrapy open-source document parsing) and SQL.

• Business Intelligence: Advanced Power BI modeling (DAX complex relationships) and Microsoft Power Platform integration.

• Education & Experience: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Engineering Artificial Intelligence or a related technical field paired with 5 years of progressive technical experience as a Data/AI Architect or Senior Engineer.

• Prior experience working onsite with Army DEVCOM DoD or military contractor environments.

• Active Secret (or higher) DoD Security Clearance Preferred.