Distinguished AI/ML Engineering Lead

Frontier Technology Inc. • Colorado Springs, CO • 1h ago

Overview

Frontier Technology Inc. (FTI) delivers mission-focused solutions to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community through advanced engineering, digital transformation, and program execution expertise. We help our customers solve complex challenges and achieve mission success by integrating people, process, and technology.

FTI is seeking a Distinguished AI/ML Engineer to serve as a technical leader, architect, and integrator - designing, building, deploying, and sustaining AI systems that transform complex mission data into trusted, explainable insights.

This is a hands-on builder role, not an analytics management position. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable writing model code, standing up ML pipelines, and integrating AI inference services into operational systems within secure environments. The right candidate blends deep AI/ML engineering expertise with system-level architecture leadership and an ability to unify data engineering, simulation modeling, and responsible AI principles into scalable, mission-ready capabilities.

Responsibilities

Architect and integrate hybrid AI systems that combine traditional machine learning, deep learning, large language models (LLMs), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.

Design and deploy scalable AI architectures including APIs, microservices, and model-serving frameworks that integrate seamlessly with analytic, simulation, or operational systems.

Lead the full AI/ML lifecycle - from data ingestion and feature engineering through training, deployment, and sustainment within secure DoD environments (IL5/IL6, ATO, GovCloud).

Engineer event-driven data pipelines and feature stores for both structured and unstructured data, including text, imagery, and simulation outputs.

Ensure Responsible AI practices by embedding traceability, explainability, and confidence scoring into deployed systems.

Implement and maintain MLOps pipelines (MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes) to support continuous integration, retraining, and drift detection.

Transition R&D proto@types into production, optimizing for mission constraints such as limited compute, edge environments, or disconnected operations.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship, setting standards for model quality, architectural design, and ethical AI deployment across programs.

Collaborate across engineering, data, and modeling teams to unify FTI's AI portfolio, ensuring interoperability and reuse across mission systems.

Support proposal and solution development, providing technical inputs for AI/ML architectures, data strategies, and Responsible AI assurance frameworks.

Education/Qualifications

**Preferring candidates close to Dayton OH, Chesapeake VA, Huntsville AL, or Colorado Springs CO. Or willing to travel to these locations and customer sites, as needed.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (Master's or Ph.D. preferred).

10+ years of overall experience in AI/ML development, with 5+ years designing and deploying scalable AI/ML architectures, including at least two full lifecycle implementations (from proto@type to operational system).

Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and modern ML frameworks.

Experience designing or deploying systems using vector databases (Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate), knowledge graphs, and semantic search frameworks.

Proven ability to design event-driven data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Flink, or Kafka.

Demonstrated experience deploying AI/ML systems in secure, classified, or edge environments.

Familiarity with Responsible AI and assurance principles, including bias detection, explainability, human-machine teaming, and hallucination prevention.

Experience integrating AI models into simulation, modeling, or operational planning systems is highly desirable.

Experience transitioning R&D systems into accredited production environments.

Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI strongly preferred.

Strong communication and mentoring skills, with the ability to lead technically while remaining deeply hands-on.

LI-GH1

LI-Remote

ID2025-6921

CategoryEngineering

TypeRegular Full-Time

Location : LocationUS-CO-Colorado Springs

TelecommuteYes

Clearance RequirementsSecret

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