Data Architect

FusionInnovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 FastestGrowing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's BestPlaces to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionateabouttheir work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectivesto our projects. Here at Fusion, we put people first. When you join us, youdon't just join a company, you join a family. If you are ready to be part of afun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard, supported, andmake ever lasting mission impacts for our Nation's most sensitive programs, youhave come to the right place.

Position Overview

Fusion Innovation is seeking an expert-level AI Application Developer & Systems Integrator to design, build, deploy, and integrate AI-powered learning solutions. This role combines hands-on AI development with technical integration and coordination across multiple projects. The successful candidate will develop applications using open-source AI models that operate in resource-constrained, disconnected, on-premises, and edge computing environments, while planning for future cloud scalability. Applications may support language learning, translation, conversational practice, simulations, speech processing, computer vision, and avatar animation. This individual will also coordinate technical resources, schedules, dependencies, and stakeholder communications to ensure projects and systems are integrated efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

AI Application Development and Deployment

• Design and implement high-performance applications using open-source AI models.

• Evaluate AI technologies and models for integration into existing learning curricula and enterprise systems.

• Train and fine-tune models, including large language models and vision models, using custom datasets.

• Develop solutions supporting machine translation, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, object detection, image generation, image classification, and avatar animation.

• Integrate large language models into applications supporting translation, conversational skills, simulations, and language practice.

• Deploy and manage models in disconnected, on-premises, and edge computing environments.

• Use Docker or Podman to create reproducible, portable deployments.

• Optimize models and applications for efficient execution across different hardware platforms.

• Support the transition of standalone AI applications to scalable cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Systems Integration and Technical Coordination

• Provide integration management support across multiple concurrent projects.

• Coordinate master project schedules, technical resources, facilities, plans, and cross-project dependencies.

• Establish functional and technical specifications, standards, and system input/output parameters.

• Resolve hardware and software interface issues and support integration of complete systems and subsystems.

• Assess relationships, dependencies, and requirements across hardware and software components.

• Evaluate emerging technologies for potential incorporation into training programs and learning solutions.

• Collaborate with engineers, systems analysts, developers, technicians, scientists, and senior managers on system design, testing, and evaluation.

Project Communication and Oversight

• Monitor project progress and provide clear updates on task status, risks, issues, and dependencies.

• Prepare status reports, briefings, technical correspondence, and communications for senior leadership.

• Coordinate meetings, maintain calendars, and track action items through completion.

• Gather and synthesize information from multiple sources to support decisions and respond to requests.

• Address technical and administrative questions accurately, clearly, and professionally.