Vadum is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to design, build, and deploy general AI solutions, focusing on LLMs, agentic AI, and computer vision, to solve complex technical problems for customers in the national defense research and development sector and drive the adoption of next-generation AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with LLM pipelines and workflows as well as computer vision feature extraction, classification, and object detection.
- Strong Python skills and familiarity with AI/ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.).
- Experience deploying AI applications via cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or on-prem environments.
- Demonstrated success delivering customer-facing pilots, proofs of concept, or integrations.
- Familiarity with MLOps workflows, CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Background in enterprise data systems or API-first architectures.
- Previous technical consulting or field engineering experience
Responsibilities
- Architect and build LLM-enabled workflows, generative-AI pipelines, and custom integrations.
- Architect and build computer vision feature extraction, classification, and object detection pipelines.
- Develop prototypes, proof of concept, and small-scale pilot systems aligned with customer use cases.
- Deploy AI pilots into customer environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid).
- Build and support data ingestion pipelines, API integrations, agent frameworks, and evaluation systems.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and guide customers through adoption and operationalization.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance to customers during pilot and post-deployment phases.
Other
- Ability to obtain Security Clearance.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or solutions engineering.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Occasional travel may be required.
