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Swingtech

Senior AI/ML Engineer – US Citizens/Green Cards only

Swingtech

. Serve as a senior Forward Deployed Engineer and accountable technical lead for one or more DOL component agencies .

Posted 9/19/2026full-timeWashington, DC • District of Columbia • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AI/ML engineering, including architecture, design, and deployment of secure AI solutions. Proficient in integrating AI models, managing data pipelines, and ensuring compliance with Federal standards and security protocols.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AI/ML EngineeringGenerative AI IntegrationMLOps PracticesFederal AI Solutions ArchitectureCloud Platform Expertise

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Hard Skills
AI Solution ArchitectureMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingDocument IntelligenceModel EvaluationData EngineeringCloud EngineeringAPIsCI/CD PipelinesModel Monitoring
Soft Skills
Technical LeadershipStakeholder CommunicationTechnical CoachingProblem SolvingCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
AWSAzure AI FoundryGoogle Cloud Vertex AIGitLabGitHub CopilotJIRAConfluenceMLflowKubernetesInfrastructure as Code
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS AI/ML CertificationMicrosoft Azure AI CertificationGoogle Cloud AI/ML Certification
Industry Keywords
FISMANIST 800-seriesFedRAMPFIPSSection 508WCAG AccessibilityFederal ATOResponsible AIAI Risk ManagementAI Governance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Serve as a senior Forward Deployed Engineer and accountable technical lead for one or more DOL component agencies
  • Lead AI solution architecture, design, engineering, integration, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and technical quality for assigned DOL agency solutions
  • Translate agency mission needs into AI use cases, prototypes, technical designs, implementation backlogs, acceptance criteria, and production-ready capabilities
  • Design and implement AI/ML systems using deterministic automation, classical ML, NLP, document intelligence, generative AI, LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, and MCP-based integrations
  • Define reusable architecture patterns, engineering standards, evaluation methods, secure integration patterns, and MLOps/LLMOps practices
  • Lead technical discovery and feasibility assessments covering data readiness, operational context, integration constraints, privacy/security impact, Responsible AI implications, and mission value
  • Architect secure and scalable AI solutions using Government-approved cloud platforms, services, models, tools, data sources, APIs, repositories, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Lead AI evaluation and TEVV activities addressing accuracy, relevance, retrieval quality, groundedness, hallucination, safety, reliability, bias and fairness, explainability, accessibility, performance, resiliency, and adversarial threats
  • Ensure training, validation, and final evaluation datasets are separated, documented, versioned, protected, and access-controlled
  • Implement or oversee model versioning, experiment tracking, source control, automated testing, model and retrieval monitoring, drift detection, controlled retraining, rollback, and release-readiness controls
  • Support Responsible AI documentation, AI risk assessments, RAIA packages, model cards, human-in-the-loop controls, AI use-case inventory inputs, and Government approval packages
  • Support security, privacy, Section 508 accessibility, ATO, architecture review, and operational-readiness activities
  • Maintain source code, configurations, technical documents, testing evidence, runbooks, and release records in Government-controlled repositories
  • Serve as primary technical liaison to DOL agency stakeholders, the COR, Federal Project Manager, AI Governance, enterprise platform, cloud, security, privacy, architecture, and accessibility teams
  • Provide peer review, technical coaching, quality oversight, and escalation support to the delivery team
  • Support incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery, and corrective-action activities for production AI systems

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, software engineering, information systems, statistics, engineering, or a closely related technical field
  • Master's degree preferred
  • At least seven years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data engineering, cloud engineering, or enterprise architecture
  • At least two years of hands-on experience delivering generative AI, LLM integration, RAG, model evaluation, agentic AI, production ML systems, or comparable AI-enabled capabilities
  • Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering secure enterprise or Federal AI solutions
  • Experience with AI model integration, APIs, data pipelines, vector databases, retrieval systems, AI orchestration, CI/CD, source control, model evaluation, monitoring, and MLOps
  • Demonstrated knowledge of FISMA, NIST 800-series guidance, FedRAMP, FIPS, security engineering, privacy, Section 508/WCAG accessibility, and Federal ATO or equivalent authorization processes
  • Ability to advise both technical and nontechnical stakeholders and lead work across AI, data, applications, UX, security, and program-management disciplines
  • US citizenship or Green Card
  • Must be local to the DMV area
  • Preferred: experience delivering AI solutions for Federal civilian agencies
  • Preferred: experience with AWS, Azure AI Foundry, Google Cloud Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, GitLab, GitHub Copilot, JIRA, Confluence, MLflow, containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code
  • Preferred: experience with AI red teaming, OWASP LLM security risks, AI risk management, model cards, Responsible AI governance, and formal AI evaluation frameworks
  • Preferred: Microsoft Azure AI, AWS AI/ML, Google Cloud AI/ML, Databricks, Snowflake, NVIDIA, CAIP, or equivalent AI/cloud certification

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 15 PTO days
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Medical Insurance with 3 options, including HSA with $600 Employer Contribution
  • Dental Insurance with no age limit orthodonture
  • Vision Insurance through EyeMed with in- and out-of-network coverage
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage with 100% premium support
  • Life insurance and AD&D with 100% premium support
  • Supplemental Life Insurance
  • Critical Care and Accident Insurance availability
  • Pet Insurance through Nationwide
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 401k with enrollment from day one
  • 4% deferral by company
  • $1,500 Annual Training Budget
  • $1,500 Referral bonus
  • Eligibility for annual merit and discretionary bonus
  • Flexible work arrangements