Applied AI Engineer | McLean, VA

AKTRA INC is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design, develop, evaluate, and deploy scalable enterprise AI solutions. The role focuses on generative AI, agentic workflows, LLM evaluation, RAG, and cloud-native AI/ML pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy AI agents, agentic workflows, and enterprise Generative AI applications
• Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate LLMs, including Claude, Azure OpenAI, and open-weight models
• Build RAG solutions using vector databases, graph databases, and enterprise knowledge bases
• Implement MCP and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication
• Develop AI/ML workflows using AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, MLflow, and Kubeflow on Kubernetes/EKS
• Build data ingestion, embedding, and multimodal processing pipelines using Python, Spark, and PySpark
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms through APIs and standardized architectural patterns
• Implement LLM evaluation, trace evaluation, safety guardrails, and validation frameworks such as DeepEval
• Apply CI/CD, Git, Spec-Based Development, and cloud-native engineering best practices