What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI Engineer position at Avion Solutions, Inc.?
Avion Solutions Inc., a 100% employee-owned company, is seeking candidates for an AI Engineer to support MDA. This position is located in Huntsville, AL.
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
- Provide SETA support to government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
- Advise on technical approaches for AI application design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation.
- Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, prompt pipelines, and evaluation harnesses.
- Support the review of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
- Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration.
- Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for suitability in mission use cases.
- Assist with the development of technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
- Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment, qualitative review, and workflow validation.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership to ensure AI efforts remain technically grounded and operationally relevant.
- Stay current on rapid changes in the AI ecosystem and provide informed recommendations on emerging tools and practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field and 12 years of relevant experience.
- Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
- Familiarity with modern AI application patterns, including LLM-based applications, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Experience with software development fundamentals, APIs, data handling, and system integration.
- Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to both engineers and government stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and have the ability to obtain/maintain a DoW security clearance.
- Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.
- Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages commonly used in AI application development.
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, model APIs, evaluation frameworks, and agent testing harnesses.
- Exposure to model hosting, inference pipelines, or cloud-based AI development environments.
- Understanding of secure AI development practices, data protection, and operational constraints in government settings.
- Experience supporting defense, cyber, intelligence, or mission application development.
- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, AI assurance, and evaluation methodologies.
- Working knowledge of one or more agentic or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack, LlamaIndex, or similar ecosystems.