Principal AI/ML Engineer - TS/SCI w/ Poly
Role Overview
Ready for a challenge that puts you at the center of AI innovation for cyber operations?
Are you an experienced AI/ML engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys turning research and prototypes into real mission capability, and wants to help shape how AI is built and delivered across a national mission?
If so, then apply today and be part of a team that supports the United States Cyber Command (USCC).
Our team is standing up USCYBERCOM’s AI Enterprise capability — the central hub that mission teams turn to when they want to move an AI solution from prototype to a secure, governed, enterprise-scale service.
As a Senior AI/ML Engineer on this team, you will design and integrate the models, agents, and AI workflows that run on that platform, with significant, visible impact on the mission of the USCC.
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline and 10+ years of experience; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Active TS/SCI clearance w/Poly
- Advanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML application development
- Demonstrated experience building or integrating LLM/agent-based systems in production
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and prompt/context engineering
- Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced mission environments and identify/escalate operational risks early
- Preference to Candidates that Have:
- Master's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience
- Experience supporting USCYBERCOM, NSA, DoD cyber operations, or related mission environments
- Experience with frameworks such as LangGraph, Agno, or the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit
- Experience with model inference/serving platforms (NVIDIA NIM, vLLM, Ollama, LiteLLM)
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-broker/integration standards
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, model benchmarking, and observability (logs/metrics/traces) for AI workloads
- Experience supporting USCYBERCOM, NSA, or DoD AI/cyber mission environments
- Security Clearance Requirement:
- Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
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