Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer (SWE-3)
Job Location:
Odenton, MD - USA
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Job Summary
Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built overseen and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research development and operations missions - across desktop mobile IoT and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrows threats and build the next generation of capabilities.
Job Summary:
Seeking a Senior AI Engineer to support the Technology Trending Solutions mission leading the design development and deployment of mission-critical AI and analytics solutions within a highly governed environment. The ideal candidate has deep experience implementing analytic governance (e.g. AVG) and AI governance frameworks (e.g. AAA) and can ensure all models data and workflows are compliant auditable and aligned with customer and enterprise policy. The Senior AI Engineer will integrate advanced AI capabilities through APIs such as OpenAI and AWS Bedrock and build intuitive front-end experiences using technologies like EX AWS Amplify and React. The role requires hands-on expertise with analytic development environments and cloud-native platforms (e.g. GMLearn Container Yard AWS SageMaker AWS EKS) as well as strong agile delivery skills using Scrum or Kanban and tools such as Jira and Confluence. The candidate must be highly proficient with modern version control and model/code management using Git GitLab Hugging Face Bailo (or similar) and demonstrate a proven track record of driving AI solutions from concept through governed production deployment in sensitive mission-focused environments.
Job Responsibilities/Qualifications:
Mission Focus: Collaborate closely with customers to build AI workflows and develop analytics based off artifacts to use AI to flag data of interest and summarize.
Technical Proficiency: Creatively leverage disparate data to fill knowledge gaps in user activities collection efforts and technology discovery.
Qualifications: Bachelors degree plus eight (8)years of relevant experience or equivalent. Proficiency with object-oriented languages (Python and Java) and experience with PySpark Jupyter Notebooks Kubernetes docker Elasticsearch GHOSTMACHINE and Query Time Analytics.
Security Clearance: Candidates must possess an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for this role.
Desirable Skills: Knowledge of customer corporate tools and data repositories.
If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
July 24 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $107900.00 - $195050.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
