SYSTEM ENGINEER - AI - 18+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance is required - PP

Job Description

Job Title: System Engineer - AI - 18 yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance

Company: Halogen Engineering Group

Location: Columbia, MD (On-site)

Travel Required: No

Shift: Day

Remote Type: Onsite

Security Clearance: Current TS/SCI with Polygraph (less than 7 years old)

Salary Range: $251,000 - $258,000 (annualized USD)

Job Description

Halogen Engineering Group is seeking an AI Engineer to provide technical advisory support for the design, evaluation, and advancement of AI-enabled applications, tools, and workflows. The role is for a hands-on technical professional with expertise in building modern AI systems, including large language models, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, and supporting software infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a proactive learner and builder who stays current with the evolving AI ecosystem.

Capabilities

• 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 review of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
• Advise on AI engineering considerations like latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, data flow, and system integration.
• Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for mission use cases.
• Assist with technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment and workflow validation.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership.
• Stay current on AI ecosystem changes and provide recommendations on emerging tools.
  
  

Required Skills

• Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
• Familiarity with modern AI application patterns (LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic systems, AI-assisted workflows).
• Working knowledge of agentic/orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, Haystack, LlamaIndex, or similar).
• Experience with software development fundamentals, APIs, data handling, and system integration.
• Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and communicate clearly to engineers and government stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  
  

Desired Skills

• Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• 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 and government operational constraints.
• Experience supporting defense, cyber, intelligence, or mission application development.
• Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, AI assurance, and evaluation methodologies.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum 18 years with Bachelor's degree, or 15 years with Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations, or related discipline).

Benefits

• Medical: CareFirst Insurance with three plans (2 Platinum PPO $0 deductible, 1 HSA $1500 deductible). Halogen pays 100% of medical premium costs up to $25,000.
• Dental: Guardian Insurance; Halogen pays 50% of plan costs.
• Vision: Guardian Insurance; Halogen pays 100% of plan costs.
• 401K: 10% company contribution, automatically vested each pay period.
• Insurance: Life, AD&D, Short and Long Term Disability.
• Paid Time Off: 20 PTO days, 6 federal holidays, 5 floating holidays.
• Bonuses: Based on performance and billable hours.
  
  

Halogen Engineering Group is an equal opportunity employer.