Lead AI & ML Engineer

Lead AI & ML Engineer

Location: Woodlawn, Maryland (Partial Remote)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead AI/ML Engineer to join a team of qualified, diverse professionals. The ideal candidate will lead the architecture, design, and development of advanced AI assisted solutions supporting large-scale modernization efforts. This role will be critical in driving automated rule extraction from legacy systems, engineering next-generation AI platforms, and ensuring the seamless integration of extracted business logic into modern enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the design, development, and implementation of AI assisted solutions to extract and document business rules from legacy COBOL/ALC systems.
• Architecting and enhancing an AI platform to support automated rule extraction, automated code comprehension, and traceability pipelines.
• Ensuring rule traceability from extraction through translation into a vendor-neutral business rules repository.
• Developing, training, and deploying machine learning models and AI agents capable of processing large codebases and legacy logic structures.
• Maintaining and optimizing AI/ML platforms, workflows, and environments, including cloud-based ML pipelines and MLOps frameworks.
• Creating scalable, secure, and reliable AI/ML services using technologies such as Python, SQL, and AWS services including Bedrock.
• Leading code reviews, architecture reviews, and quality assurance activities to ensure model accuracy and reproducibility.
• Collaborating with cross-functional engineering, data, and business rule teams.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and software developers.
• Documenting models, workflows, datasets, and architectural decisions to support long-term maintainability.
• Supporting Agile ceremonies and contributing to sprint planning and iterative delivery activities.

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with a BS/BA degree; 6 years with an MS/MA; or 3 years with a PhD.
• Must be eligible to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying AI/ML models for code analysis, natural language processing, rule extraction, or AI agents.
• Hands-on experience maintaining ML platforms, MLOps pipelines, or AI agent frameworks in production environments.
• Proven ability to architect complex systems and lead end-to-end technical efforts.
• Experience integrating AI/ML solutions with legacy or mainframe-based environments (COBOL, ALC, JCL, or similar).
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher-level clearance as required for federal programs.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a strong understanding of data processing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques.
• Experience designing or operating AI/ML workloads in AWS environments, including AWS Bedrock, S3, Lambda, or related cloud services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with federal healthcare IT environments or modernization initiatives.
• Familiarity with business rules management systems (BRMS) or enterprise rules repositories.
• Experience with automated code analysis platforms or static analysis tools.
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Certifications in AI/ML, cloud architecture (AWS), or related technical domains.
• Experience supporting projects requiring strict traceability or auditability standards.
• Active or former Public Trust clearance.

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