AI/ML Engineer — Generative AI Mission Systems

Rackner is a company focused on building technology that supports critical defense and public-sector missions. They are seeking an AI/ML Engineer to help integrate generative AI capabilities into secure mission software, working across various teams to ensure reliability and security in their applications.

Responsibilities:

• Build and integrate LLM-enabled capabilities into secure application workflows
• Develop or integrate retrieval-augmented generation and agentic-AI components
• Design prompts, system instructions, and inference workflows that support real user and mission needs
• Connect AI capabilities with existing backend services and decision-support processes
• Evaluate outputs for grounding, reliability, accuracy, and usefulness
• Develop tests for AI-enabled functionality and support broader integration testing
• Demonstrate working prototypes and incorporate technical and user feedback
• Document AI designs, workflows, limitations, and implementation decisions
• Participate in code reviews, technical reviews, and security-remediation activities
• Collaborate with software engineers, security professionals, DevSecOps teams, and customer stakeholders