AI Engineer

AI Engineer, U.S. Government | Washington, DC | $200k-$300k total comp

Top Secret Clearance is a must

Build AI that is deployed directly into the Pentagon, at startup pace, with one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the US.

The Company

• A fast-growing AI company, supplying the training data and pipelines the leading frontier AI labs use to post-train their models
• Entered the US Government with three contracts live and government central to its long-term strategy
• Holds a facility clearance and works on senior-level, high-visibility national security programmes

The Role

• Join a forward-deployed AI engineering team embedded with the Chief Digital and AI Office on a rapid prototyping programme
• Work directly with Pentagon departments to understand their problems and translate them into AI solutions
• Build and deploy AI agents and applications in sprints of a couple of months, from prototype to production
• Own systems end to end, from discovery and architecture through deployment, security and iteration
• Join a team of three scaling to ten or more, reporting to the Director of Research

What We’re Looking For

• Hands-on experience building AI agents, deep learning models and fine-tuned LLMs, deployed into production
• Strong Python engineering, with a track record of shipping systems that people use
• Customer-facing engineering or forward deployed experience
• Defence tech, Intelligence Community, military or US Government background
• Experience delivering applications into DoW, IC or government environments
• Active TS/SCI clearance preferred; Secret considered
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, the DC area, and able to work from the Pentagon three to four days a week

How to Apply

Apply with an up-to-date CV, or contact Tom Brammer at View email address on click.appcast.io for a confidential conversation.