AI Platform Engineer

SilverEdge is a premier provider of innovative cyber, software, and intelligence solutions, addressing mission-critical challenges for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. They are seeking an AI Platform Engineer to develop innovative and effective solutions for their DoD customers, focusing on AI-enabling infrastructure and modern AI platforms in secure government settings.

Responsibilities:

• Provide SETA support to government leadership and technical teams on AI platform architecture, integration, and sustainment
• Advise on the design and evaluation of AI/ML platform environments across cloud, hybrid, and enterprise deployments
• Support platform decisions involving Azure, AWS, Microsoft enterprise services, containerized environments, data pipelines, model hosting, and secure access patterns
• Assess platform readiness for AI workloads, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, observability, and scalability considerations
• Help evaluate vendor offerings, reference architectures, technical tradeoffs, and implementation approaches
• Support the development of technical documentation, architecture artifacts, white papers, decision briefings, and executive summaries
• Coordinate with program managers, engineers, mission stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, and external partners to keep platform efforts aligned with mission outcomes
• Identify integration risks, technical gaps, and dependencies, and recommend practical mitigation strategies
• Assist with transition planning from prototype or pilot efforts into sustainable operational capability
• Educate stakeholders on AI platform concepts, emerging patterns, and implementation best practices in government environments