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Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit www.unissant.com.

We are seeking an AI Developer/Engineer to join our team and support our client, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This is a remote position.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on AI/ML engineer who can develop, evaluate, tune, and operationalize secure and maintainable AI capabilities for FEMA mission programs. This individual will deliver solutions across Azure Ready AI and other FEMA-approved platforms, including AWS, GCP, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, and CRM/SaaS environments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and productionize RAG applications, chatbots, document translation and summarization services, predictive models, anomaly-detection capabilities, and routing/optimization solutions.

• Evaluate new AI use cases and provide feasibility, architecture, cost, complexity, schedule, and solution-stack estimates.

• Select appropriate algorithms; prepare and engineer data; train, validate, tune, document, and monitor models.

• Define and maintain model-performance metrics, evaluation processes, monitoring, and improvement approaches.

• Integrate AI/ML models with full-stack applications and enterprise workflows through APIs, approved cloud AI services, and secure data pipelines.

• Implement MLOps and DevSecOps practices, including git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and controlled deployments.

• Support AI security boundaries, ATO artifacts, data governance, role-based access controls, and model/application risk-management activities.

• Create technical documentation covering architecture, experiments, model performance, operations, and customer use.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

• Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience in AI/ML, data science, software engineering, cloud application development, or related technical disciplines.

• Proficiency in Python, R, or JavaScript, with experience using machine-learning and deep-learning frameworks.

• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, git-based source control, and observability tooling.

• Experience analyzing complex datasets and deploying scalable, maintainable AI/ML solutions into production.

• Experience with cloud-hosted AI services, secure APIs, data pipelines, and enterprise application integration.

• Strong analytical, technical documentation, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field required.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• Cloud, AI/ML, data-science, DevSecOps, or relevant technical certification preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain AI/ML designs, model performance, technical risks, and solution tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner.

Clearance Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Favorably adjudicated FEMA Public Trust suitability is required before the employee's start date.

• Must meet DHS/FEMA training and handling requirements for SBU/FOUO and potentially CUI, PII, or other sensitive FEMA data.

Travel:

• This is a remote position. Travel may be required based on client and business needs.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly a routine office environment.

• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.

• Flexible in working extended hours as needed.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.