AI/ML Integration Specialist - AFTAS Pro
Description

  

We are hiring an AI/ML Integration Specialist to provide technical direction for bringing approved AI capabilities into an existing federal acquisition enterprise — its toolset, its data, and its accredited infrastructure. Worth being direct about scope: this is an integration role, not a model development role. The hard problems here are schema alignment, API and connector configuration, data readiness, and building the verification and monitoring frameworks that let a security-conscious customer trust an AI-driven output. If you want to train foundation models, this is not that job. If you want to make AI actually work inside a large regulated enterprise, it is.


What You'll Get to Do as a AI/ML Integration Specialist:

  • Evaluate existing and emerging AI tools for integration suitability against real mission requirements.
  • Analyze current system architectures to determine where AI integration produces value and where it introduces unacceptable risk.
  • Draft technical roadmaps supporting phased AI adoption, sequenced by dependency and risk rather than by novelty.
  • Identify and document integration risks, interoperability challenges, and resource requirements.
  • Define data mapping and schema alignment strategies between source systems and AI tools.
  • Provide design support for modifying data pipelines to meet AI requirements.
  • Draft data quality, security, and compliance procedures that make enterprise data fit for AI consumption.
  • Configure APIs and data connectors for AI services, working alongside platform and security teams.
  • Document and define technical requirements for interfacing with AI models.
  • Validate that integrated AI solutions actually match how users work, not just how the architecture diagram says they should.
  • Design and document continuous verification frameworks that keep AI components secure, usable, and performing within established parameters.
  • Develop test and evaluation criteria the government can use to validate that integrated AI systems meet mission objectives.
  • Conduct ongoing technical monitoring and vulnerability assessment, verifying the accuracy, safety, and reliability of AI-driven outputs.
Requirements
  •  5+ years integrating AI and machine learning capabilities into enterprise environments, with at least some of that work inside DoD or federal frameworks.
  • Master's degree in computer science or data science, or a bachelor's degree with equivalent additional experience.
  • Active Secret clearance (interim Secret considered with approval).
  • Hands-on API and data connector configuration, schema mapping, and data pipeline engineering.
  • Ability to explain AI capability, limitation, and risk to non-technical senior stakeholders without overselling either.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • WS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate, or AWS Certified AI Practitioner. Holders of the retired AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty are equally welcome — that credential remains active for three years from the date earned.
  • Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, or comparable current cloud ML credential.
  • Experience with AI test and evaluation, continuous verification, or security monitoring in an accredited government environment.
  • Prompt engineering and AI-enabled workflow design experience.
  • Familiarity with federal AI governance and compliance expectations.