Role overview
MANTECH
seeks a motivated, career- and customer-oriented
SME
AI Ops Engineer
to join our AI innovation team in
Ashburn, VA
. This is currently a hybrid position with 2-3 days onsite/week. Each day U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oversees the massive flow of people, capital, and products that enter and depart the United States via air, land, sea, and cyberspace. The volume and complexity of both physical and virtual border crossings require the application of solutions to aid officers in detecting threats while promoting efficient trade and travel.
What you'll work on
- Lead the design and operational deployment of Large Language Model (LLM) based applications and AI agents across AWS or Google cloud environments.
- Implement and optimize Model Context Protocol (MCP) for context-aware orchestration and efficient scaling of AI services.
- Design and manage embeddings generation, storage, and retrieval, enabling semantic search and recommendation and develop monitoring, logging, and observability solutions leveraging the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
- Engineer graph-oriented deployment architectures for dependency mapping, relationship-aware data flow advanced troubleshooting and automate deployment, scaling, and monitoring using modern MLOps and AIOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, orchestration).
- Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance across multiple systems and pipelines
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver high-availability AI-powered applications.
- Build monitoring and alerting solutions to detect anomalies, performance bottlenecks, and failures in AI/ML services and research and implement emerging AI infrastructure and tools and best practices to continuously improve system reliability and scalability.
What we're looking for
- The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.
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