Artificial Intelligence Software Developer Jobs in Washington

Job Title

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Position Summary

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ASI works with the Veterans Administration (VA) to provide high quality, effective, and efficient Information Technology (IT) services to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans’ health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner. VA depends on Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) systems to meet mission goals.

The Artificial Intelligence Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining AI-powered solutions that support business and cybersecurity objectives. This role focuses on developing and integrating machine learning and AI models, automating processes, analyzing data, and applying AI technologies to solve complex problems. The AI Engineer works closely with software development, cybersecurity, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure AI solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with project requirements.

Key Responsibilities (Consolidated)

· Design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain approved AI and machine learning capabilities for cybersecurity architecture, engineering, automation, analytics, security testing, and data protection use cases.

· Identify and evaluate AI-enabled automation opportunities within engineering design reviews, baseline configuration management, risk analysis, cybersecurity tool workflows, security testing, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP).

· Categorize, test, and validate standalone AI systems and AI features embedded in commercial or Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings before use and continuously as models, features, controls, data, or architectures change.

· Evaluate AI outputs for accuracy, factuality, grounding, uncertainty, source provenance, reliability, security, and compliance before the outputs are used in VA efforts.

· Develop and execute model evaluation, benchmark, adversarial testing, red-team, and monitoring methods that identify hallucinations, unsafe behavior, security weaknesses, and material performance deviations.

· Prepare and maintain acceptable use policies, model cards, system cards, data cards, evaluation results, end-user resources, feedback mechanisms, pre-training and post-training documentation, and enterprise-control descriptions.

· Document system prompts, classifiers, fine-tuning, moderation controls, safety filters, third-party modifications, training provenance, risks, mitigations, and material AI model or system changes.

· Support required AI Statements of Attestation, compliance monitoring, reporting, corrective action plans, and advance change disclosures before implementation.

· Protect VA-sensitive information and ensure AI capabilities use only authorized data, environments, services, and configurations in accordance with VA and federal requirements.

· Maintain approved AI workflows and autonomous-agent configurations in a version-controlled repository with purpose, application context, dependencies, access controls, audit history, and rollback support.

· Measure and report the effect of AI-enabled automation on analytical effort, review time, rework, error rates, classification accuracy, gap-identification timeliness, and security outcomes.

· Collaborate with cybersecurity, software, data, infrastructure, architecture, privacy, legal, and program teams and remain current with emerging AI threats, methods, technologies, and federal guidance.

· Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills and Qualifications

· Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Business Administration, Business Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Assurance, Information Security, Information Resource Management, or related fields.

· Certification in one or more of the following: IAT III, IAM III or IASAE III certifications.

· Minimum of 10 years of experience in relevant fields including IT security, data science, or software engineering, of which at least 5 years involve the design, development, or deployment of AI or machine learning systems in enterprise or Government environments A PhD in a related field (IT security, data science, or software engineering) may substitute for up to 5 years of the required experience.

· Expertise working on data science, machine learning, or AI projects, either through internships, research projects, or professional roles.

· Expertise building, training, and deploying machine learning models and AI systems in a production environment.

· Expertise in data collection, preparation, cleaning, analysis, lineage, and quality controls for AI and machine learning systems.

· Demonstrated experience with AI model validation, benchmark testing, continuous monitoring, technical documentation, and secure AI implementation in regulated enterprise environments.

· Expertise collaborating with data scientists, software developers, cybersecurity engineers, infrastructure teams, domain experts, and governance stakeholders.

· Expertise applying AI solutions to real-world problems at large corporations or Government agencies similar in size and scope to GSA, IRS, DoD, or VA.

· Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

· Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience with generative AI and large language model security, model and system cards, grounded output evaluation, adversarial testing, red teaming, MLOps or LLMOps, and federal trustworthy-AI governance.

· Previous VA experience.

· Current Public Trust or ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance quickly.

Location

Fully Remote (Contingent Position)

Legal:

ASI is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

Job Type

Full-time

Benefits:

· Medical insurance

· Vision insurance

· Dental insurance

· 401(k)

· Paid time off

ASI provides IT consulting services to federal, state, and local government while focusing on innovation using applied science principles. Our core vision centers around secure automation of technology through programmatic and result driven iterative changes to empower our partners.