Senior AI Solutions Engineer (Cloud Engineer 3)
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UNAVAILABLE · Paramus, NJ, US
newday · London
Requisition Number: 30541
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range: $110,190.00 - $150,000.00
Security Clearance: Secret
Level of Experience: Mid
This opportunity resides with Global Security (GS). Mission Technologies’ Global Security (GS) group comprises live, virtual, constructive (LVC) solutions; fleet sustainment; nuclear and environmental; and Australia business.
As a trusted partner to our military customers, HII designs, develops and operates the largest LVC enterprise that prepares warfighters for cross-domain battle. With advanced technologies to enable mission readiness, HII understands that preparation requires full coordination—not readiness in piece-parts.
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Navy has entrusted HII to maintain and modernize the vast majority of its fleet. With a holistic approach to life-cycle maritime defense systems—from small watercraft to submarines, surface combatants and aircraft carriers—HII ensures a high state of readiness.
HII supports the Department of Energy’s national security mission through the management and operation of its sites, as well as the safe cleanup of legacy waste across the country. HII meets clients’ toughest nuclear and environmental challenges.
Leadership Mindset at HII – Mission Technologies
Leadership at HII is a mindset, not a title. Through our Leadership Capability Framework, we define how every employee grows, leads, and contributes—regardless of role. It sets the standard for how you can develop yourself and what you can expect from leaders across our organization. We look for candidates who want to grow in alignment with these capabilities:
These capabilities guide how all employees contribute to our shared success across Mission Technologies.
Seeking an experienced Senior AI Solutions Engineer to design, develop, integrate, deploy, secure, and optimize Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions within an enterprise Information Technology environment.
The successful candidate will work across the full AI solution lifecycle, transforming customer and mission requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable AI-enabled capabilities. This position will work closely with customers, software developers, cloud and infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity personnel, data professionals, and other technical stakeholders.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance AI-powered applications and enterprise solutions.
• Develop solutions utilizing large language models (LLMs), generative AI, machine learning, and other modern AI technologies.
• Work with customers and technical stakeholders to identify use cases, understand mission and business requirements, and translate those requirements into effective AI solutions.
• Integrate AI capabilities into new and existing enterprise applications, systems, data sources, and business workflows.
• Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise data and knowledge sources.
• Develop and refine prompts, system instructions, context-management strategies, and other techniques designed to improve AI solution accuracy, reliability, and usefulness.
• Develop, consume, and manage APIs and services supporting communication between AI models, applications, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Design and implement data ingestion, transformation, indexing, search, retrieval, and processing capabilities supporting AI solutions.
• Provision, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure supporting AI applications and workloads.
• Implement identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access controls, and other security mechanisms protecting AI systems and information.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity personnel to identify vulnerabilities, implement appropriate security controls, and support applicable cybersecurity requirements.
• Implement safeguards designed to protect sensitive information and reduce the risk of unauthorized access, disclosure, or inappropriate use of data.
• Support Responsible AI practices, including appropriate consideration of accuracy, transparency, privacy, security, reliability, and human oversight.
• Evaluate AI models, platforms, frameworks, tools, and architectural approaches based on technical requirements, mission needs, security considerations, performance, and cost.
• Evaluate and test AI-generated results for accuracy, relevance, consistency, and reliability.
• Develop methods for measuring and improving AI solution performance and effectiveness.
• Monitor application and model performance, availability, reliability, usage, resource consumption, and operating costs.
• Optimize model selection, API consumption, token utilization, compute resources, storage, and other cloud services to improve performance and control costs.
• Troubleshoot application, model, integration, infrastructure, data, and performance issues throughout the AI solution lifecycle.
• Participate in source control, code review, testing, configuration management, CI/CD, and DevSecOps processes.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including solution architecture, data flows, interfaces, configurations, security controls, deployment procedures, operating procedures, and troubleshooting information.
• Support proofs of concept and prototypes and assist in transitioning successful solutions into secure, supportable production capabilities.
• Remain current on emerging AI technologies, large language models, cloud services, cybersecurity risks, Responsible AI practices, and industry developments.
• Communicate complex AI and technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance for the duration of employment.
• Be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret (TS) clearance if required by the customer or assigned duties.
• Possess and maintain a current CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science.
• Possess a minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in computer design, software development, computer networks, or directly related technical work.
Desired Technical Experience
Relevant experience may include one or more of the following:
• Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI
• Microsoft Azure AI services
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Azure AI Foundry and related AI development services
• OpenAI or comparable commercial/open-source model platforms
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Prompt engineering and context engineering
• AI agents and agentic workflows
• Vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and enterprise search
• Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable programming languages
• REST APIs, web services, and application integration
• Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Azure Functions, App Service, containers, Kubernetes, or comparable application-hosting technologies
• SQL, NoSQL, and other enterprise data technologies
• Data ingestion, transformation, indexing, and retrieval
• Identity and access management, including Microsoft Entra ID or comparable technologies
• Git, GitHub, or comparable source-control platforms
• CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• Application and cloud security
• AI security and data-protection practices
• Model evaluation, testing, monitoring, and observability
• AI governance and Responsible AI practices
• Performance and cloud-cost optimization
• Development and deployment of enterprise AI applications
• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science.
• Possess a minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in computer design, software development, computer networks, or directly related technical work.
Adequate visual acuity and manual dexterity for meeting the requirements of job.
The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills.
Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.
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HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.
Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.
Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.
Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Do You Need Assistance?
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to buildyourcareer@hii-co.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #3 for HII Mission Technologies.
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