{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"fae4e3bf4c41fa002f151a9a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fae4e3bf4c41fa002f151a9a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fae4e3bf4c41fa002f151a9a","title":"AI/ML Engineer","description":"Everforth ECS is seeking a AI/ML Engineer to work in an onsite capacity with primary duty located at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Note: This role is contingent upon additional funding.\n\nEverforth ECS Federal has an immediate opening for a Technical Lead supporting the PSP2 Agentic Network program for a Department of Defense customer at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia\n\nThe Technical Lead serves as the senior hands-on technical authority for the PSP2 Agentic Network. The role designs, prototypes, deploys, and sustains secure agentic AI, data, and platform capabilities across classified and unclassified environments, with a primary focus on JWICS-hosted mission services and approved information-sharing paths.\nThe Technical Lead evaluates and improves hosting architectures, including the existing JWICS-hosting option and cloud landing-zone alternatives, to improve reliability, support responsiveness, model inference availability, access management, auditability, and lifecycle control. The role is responsible for turning approved technical approaches into deployable, observable, and supportable systems.\nThe position engineers an unclassified platform for storing and sharing releasable information with allies and partners and develops technically feasible patterns for moving approved data into JWICS through authorized cross-domain solutions. The Technical Lead defines the security, interface, data-governance, and operational constraints required for each implementation.\nThe Technical Lead is based at the Pentagon and supports technical integration, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment activities at Combatant Commands and other Government-directed locations. Routine domestic and international travel is required.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nManage, supervise, and lead the technical architecture for the PSP2 Agentic Network, including agent orchestration, model inference, data access, APIs, platform services, network boundaries, observability, and secure deployment patterns.\nAssess the technical suitability, performance, resilience, support model, and operational constraints of available JWICS hosting options and document recommended architecture patterns and implementation tradeoffs.\nDeploy and operate LLM inference and agentic AI services, including model-serving endpoints, prompt and policy controls, retrieval and tool-use integrations, scaling, performance tuning, monitoring, and failure recovery.\nImplement a dedicated unclassified platform for controlled storage, discovery, access, and sharing of releasable data with approved allies and partners.\nAnalyze data flows between unclassified and JWICS environments; define data preparation, labeling, format, security, release, and interface requirements for movement through authorized cross-domain solutions.\nDevelop technical designs, integration specifications, and proof-of-concept implementations for approved cross-domain data-transfer patterns without bypassing established security, release, or authorization processes.\nImplement application and platform observability, including health checks, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, performance analysis, incident diagnostics, and operational dashboards.\nPerform technical hardening, integration testing, performance testing, security validation, and operational-readiness verification before release to users.\nTroubleshoot complex issues involving environment configuration, software dependencies, network connectivity, identity and access controls, interfaces, containerization, data pipelines, model inference, and deployment processes.\nProduce and maintain architecture diagrams, interface-control documentation, configuration baselines, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, deployment instructions, and technical decision records.\nEvaluate architectural alternatives and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs involving security, reliability, performance, scalability, interoperability, maintainability, and cost.\nProvide technical evidence, configuration information, and architecture artifacts required to support cybersecurity, accreditation, and Authorization to Operate activities.\nReview technical implementations, establish engineering standards, and provide technical direction to developers and engineers working on the PSP2 Agentic Network.\nProvide on-site and remote technical support during integration, deployment, initial operational use, and stabilization periods.\n\nSalary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.\n\nSalary Range: $125,000-145,000\n\nGeneral Description of Benefits\n\nRequirements:\nU.S. Citizen.\nCurrent DoD Top Secret clearance with eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), with the ability to obtain and maintain required facility, system, enclave, and JWICS access.\nActive AWS Cloud and Security+ Certifications.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field is required. A master's degree is preferred.\n5+ years of relevant professional experience supporting technical integration, deployment, test, fielding, or sustainment activities.\nAbility to work onsite at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA.\nAbility to attend meetings and program events in Fairfax, VA.\nAbility to travel","company":"Everforth Ecs","rawCompany":"everforth ecs","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T12:34:42.493Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"928110","title":"National Security","slug":"national-security"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"AI/ML Engineer","description":"Everforth ECS is seeking a AI/ML Engineer to work in an onsite capacity with primary duty located at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Note: This role is contingent upon additional funding.\n\nEverforth ECS Federal has an immediate opening for a Technical Lead supporting the PSP2 Agentic Network program for a Department of Defense customer at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia\n\nThe Technical Lead serves as the senior hands-on technical authority for the PSP2 Agentic Network. The role designs, prototypes, deploys, and sustains secure agentic AI, data, and platform capabilities across classified and unclassified environments, with a primary focus on JWICS-hosted mission services and approved information-sharing paths.\nThe Technical Lead evaluates and improves hosting architectures, including the existing JWICS-hosting option and cloud landing-zone alternatives, to improve reliability, support responsiveness, model inference availability, access management, auditability, and lifecycle control. The role is responsible for turning approved technical approaches into deployable, observable, and supportable systems.\nThe position engineers an unclassified platform for storing and sharing releasable information with allies and partners and develops technically feasible patterns for moving approved data into JWICS through authorized cross-domain solutions. The Technical Lead defines the security, interface, data-governance, and operational constraints required for each implementation.\nThe Technical Lead is based at the Pentagon and supports technical integration, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment activities at Combatant Commands and other Government-directed locations. Routine domestic and international travel is required.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nManage, supervise, and lead the technical architecture for the PSP2 Agentic Network, including agent orchestration, model inference, data access, APIs, platform services, network boundaries, observability, and secure deployment patterns.\nAssess the technical suitability, performance, resilience, support model, and operational constraints of available JWICS hosting options and document recommended architecture patterns and implementation tradeoffs.\nDeploy and operate LLM inference and agentic AI services, including model-serving endpoints, prompt and policy controls, retrieval and tool-use integrations, scaling, performance tuning, monitoring, and failure recovery.\nImplement a dedicated unclassified platform for controlled storage, discovery, access, and sharing of releasable data with approved allies and partners.\nAnalyze data flows between unclassified and JWICS environments; define data preparation, labeling, format, security, release, and interface requirements for movement through authorized cross-domain solutions.\nDevelop technical designs, integration specifications, and proof-of-concept implementations for approved cross-domain data-transfer patterns without bypassing established security, release, or authorization processes.\nImplement application and platform observability, including health checks, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, performance analysis, incident diagnostics, and operational dashboards.\nPerform technical hardening, integration testing, performance testing, security validation, and operational-readiness verification before release to users.\nTroubleshoot complex issues involving environment configuration, software dependencies, network connectivity, identity and access controls, interfaces, containerization, data pipelines, model inference, and deployment processes.\nProduce and maintain architecture diagrams, interface-control documentation, configuration baselines, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, deployment instructions, and technical decision records.\nEvaluate architectural alternatives and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs involving security, reliability, performance, scalability, interoperability, maintainability, and cost.\nProvide technical evidence, configuration information, and architecture artifacts required to support cybersecurity, accreditation, and Authorization to Operate activities.\nReview technical implementations, establish engineering standards, and provide technical direction to developers and engineers working on the PSP2 Agentic Network.\nProvide on-site and remote technical support during integration, deployment, initial operational use, and stabilization periods.\n\nSalary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.\n\nSalary Range: $125,000-145,000\n\nGeneral Description of Benefits\n\nRequirements:\nU.S. Citizen.\nCurrent DoD Top Secret clearance with eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), with the ability to obtain and maintain required facility, system, enclave, and JWICS access.\nActive AWS Cloud and Security+ Certifications.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field is required. 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