Technical AI Requirements Systems Engineer

Description

The company is a global technology and professional services firm serving U.S. government, defense and intelligence agencies, with 26,000 staff across more than 50 countries.

This role is in the IT infrastructure and operations job family and centres on an enterprise application that is adding AI-enabled features.

You will work on the technical side of new features, defining low-level requirements and checking that they work as intended.

The team wants people who enjoy solving hard problems and have a record of delivering high-quality work.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers, systems engineers, developers and AI solution stakeholders to define, build, test and deliver mission software.
• Carry out hands-on technical work and validate the functionality of new features.
• Define low-level requirements for the application.
• Take part in Agile delivery across the development lifecycle, working closely with the development team and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Eight or more years of related experience (8+ years).
• A Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.
• Familiarity with software development using Java or JavaScript frameworks, RESTful microservices, and cloud architecture and deployment on Amazon Web Services.
• Ability to work with customers to elicit, analyse and document detailed functional requirements and turn them into technical specifications.
• Ability to convert high-level requirements into actionable Jira user stories and epics for development teams.
• Experience carrying out functional testing of application features.
• Experience as a key technical liaison across systems engineers, developers and domain experts, presenting AI approaches and their tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Awareness of modern AI and ML developments and the ability to spot practical ways to apply them to enterprise applications.
• Skills in problem solving, requirements definition, systems management and technical requirements.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.
• US citizenship required.
• Desired experience: designing or refining technical artifacts specifically for AI integration.
• Desired experience: evaluating AI architectures, assessing model performance and identifying system-level integration tradeoffs.
• Desired experience: coordinating the design and development of AI-driven solutions from concept to deployment, integrated with the existing software architecture.
• Desired experience: keeping current with AI and machine learning advances and applying new methods to improve existing systems.

Conditions

Based in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, USA.

Hybrid role with up to one day a week of telework.

Scheduled for 40 hours per week.

No travel required.

No public trust or other clearance required.

The likely salary range is $170,000 - $230,000. This is not a guarantee; pay is set by experience, geographic location and possibly contract requirements, and may fall outside this range.

Identity verification uses biometrics and AI. You must be on camera during virtual interviews, and your photo may be taken to verify identity. By proceeding you authorise the collection, processing and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security.

Equal opportunity employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) with pre-tax and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits and a company match.
• Flexible work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel accident insurance, provided or available.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• An AI-powered career tool that suggests career steps and learning opportunities.
• An internal mobility team to help you reach your career goals.
• A military-friendly workplace with an award-winning culture of innovation.