AI Solutions Architect - FS or CI Polygraph Required
Remote · Virginia, United States
Job Summary
AI Solutions Engineer within Cloudera’s Public Sector Consulting leads as the technical architect and execution lead for agencies transitioning from data chaos to agentic autonomy. Responsible for designing, building, and deploying mission-critical AI applications on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) in highly secure, air-gapped or hybrid-cloud environments. Core duties include evaluating model architectures (LLMs/SLMs/traditional ML) and advising on Build-Vs-Buy-Fine-tune decisions, developing end-to-end data pipelines, building vector databases and RAG architectures, optimizing model inference with quantization and hardware acceleration, implementing LLMOps, and collaborating with the customer’s AI CoE to establish automated guardrails for ethics, bias mitigation, and FedRAMP/IL5 compliance. Requires 5+ years in related fields, proficiency in Python and major DL frameworks, experience with Cloudera CDP and big data tools, and a TS poly with CI/FS clearance. The role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Location is remote within the US (Virginia remote). This posting includes a security-awareness notice about recruitment scams.
Required Qualifications
- Active Top Secret Security Clearance
- Polygraph required
- 5+ years in Data Engineering, Machine Learning, or Software Engineering with at least 2 years in Generative AI/Deep Learning
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face)
- Hands-on experience with Cloudera (CDP), Spark, or similar big data ecosystems
- Experience with orchestration tools (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack)
- Experience developing Visual data representations (Django, React, Angular)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL/Vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus, PGVector)
- Public Sector knowledge (NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP, SRGs, STIGs)
- Active Counterintelligence or Full Scope Poly
- Not eligible for immigration sponsorship
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