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AI Solutions Engineer
Location: Tysons Corner, Virginia (Hybrid Position)
Type: Full-Time
Exiger is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer with deep expertise in AI/LLMs, data pipelines, and APIs to deliver mission-ready technology solutions for trade enforcement and customs operations. This role is ideal for an engineer who combines hands-on technical skills with domain knowledge in customs, tariff classification, and transshipment detection, and who thrives in customer-facing delivery environments.
The AI Solutions Engineer will design, deploy, and maintain production-ready systems that operationalize models built by Data Scientists, ensuring scalability, security, and integration with government systems. The engineer will also mentor junior developers, enforce engineering best practices, and represent Exiger in technical discussions with federal stakeholders, aligning advanced AI solutions with mission-critical enforcement needs.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical support for customers, ensuring delivery of AI/LLM models, APIs, and data pipelines that align with mission needs.
- Collaborate directly with customer stakeholders to understand enforcement and operational requirements and translate them into technical implementations.
- Build, deploy, and maintain production-ready systems that support tariff classification, transshipment detection, and revenue collection analysis.
- Partner with Data Scientists to operationalize models, ensuring scalability, security, and integration with customer systems.
- Mentor junior engineers, enforce best practices in coding and data engineering, and contribute to a culture of delivery excellence.
- Represent Exiger in customer-facing technical discussions, focusing exclusively on mission delivery.
Qualifications / Skills
- Advanced proficiency in SQL, Python, Java, and React.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs (development, fine-tuning, deployment, and applied mission use cases).
- Proven ability to design and deploy data pipelines and APIs in support of operational environments.
- Background in trade compliance, customs enforcement, tariff classification, or customs operations strongly preferred.
- Experience working directly with U.S. government stakeholders, especially in customs, trade, or enforcement contexts.
- Strong communication skills to translate technical solutions into mission-ready deliverables.
- Demonstrated ability to work in customer-facing delivery environments, aligning technical work with operational needs.
Additional CBP Transshipment & Tariff Collection Expertise
- Familiarity with tariff classification, customs valuation, origin determination, and the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS).
- Understanding of transshipment detection and substantial transformation rules to identify compliance risks.
- Experience applying AI/ML analytics and risk.
- Experience supporting large-scale trade compliance datasets.
- Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
- Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
- Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
- Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications
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Exiger is revolutionizing the way corporations, government agencies and banks manage risk and compliance with a combination of technology-enabled and SaaS solutions. In recognition of the growing volume and complexity of data and regulation, Exiger is committed to creating a more sustainable risk and compliance environment through its holistic and innovative approach to problem solving. Exiger's mission to make the world a safer place to do business drives its award-winning AI technology platform, DDIQ, built to anticipate the market's most pressing needs related to evolving ESG, cyber, financial crime, third-party and supply chain risk. Exiger has won 30 AI, RegTech and Supply Chain partner awards.
Exiger's core values are courage, excellence, expertise, innovation, integrity, teamwork and trust.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Exiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.