AI/ML Engineer I

About this role

Job Title:
AI/ML Engineer I


Pay Type
: SALARIED EXEMPT


Location:
Remote (Must Work East Coast Hours)


Citizenship:
U.S. Citizenship (Required)


Summary Of Position Role/Responsibilities
Quzara is seeking an AI/ML Engineer I to support the development, deployment, and operational support of AI-enabled applications serving federal and defense-adjacent customers. This role combines applied AI engineering with practical data science responsibilities to ensure reliable, secure, and high-performing AI systems in production environments. AI/ML Engineer will collaborate with internal development teams and government customers to troubleshoot issues, resolve defects, optimize model behavior, and improve data quality across AI-driven workflows. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on implementation, support, and continuous improvement not research or supervisory leadership.


Essential Functions Of The Job

• Develop, integrate, and maintain AI/ML components within secure, production-grade applications
• Work directly with customers and internal engineering teams to troubleshoot system behavior and resolve defects
• Perform bug fixes, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across AI-enabled services
• Diagnosing and remediate data quality issues affecting model performance and system outputs
• Support data preprocessing, transformation, validation, and feature engineering pipelines
• Implement and optimize Large Language Model (LLM) integrations in secure cloud environments
• Assist in prompt engineering, response evaluation, and model tuning
• Support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and embedding workflows
• Participate in LLMOps practices including monitoring, logging, versioning, and performance tracking of deployed models
• Evaluate model outputs for consistency, hallucination risk, bias, and reliability
• Integrate AI services via REST APIs within backend systems
• Contribute to observabil...