AI Engineer - Public Sector

The role

You will architect, prototype, and ship multimodal data processing, RAG, and agentic systems for Government and Military clients. You will own the lifecycle of AI solutions from research to AWS deployment.

What you will do

• Design and implement production-grade RAG pipelines and agentic workflows using Python.
• Build systems that handle real-world messy data including PDFs, scanned docs, images, and full motion video.
• Evaluate new models including LLMs, embedding models, and object detection.
• Prototype approaches for SBIR/government deliverables.
• Run experiments to prove what works.
• Document architectures.
• Contribute to technical reports for contract deliverables.
• Participate in pre-sales calls to architect solutions for complex client needs.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience deploying Production RAG pipelines against real-world, messy datasets.
• Deep expertise in Agentic system design (tool-use, multi-agent orchestration).
• Strong Python engineering skills.
• Experience operating within AWS/GovCloud environments.

Nice to have

• Experience fine-tuning NLP or object detection models.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks (hallucination detection, drift monitoring).
• Knowledge of government security standards and working in different classification environments and on-prem
• Existing Secret/TS clearance or eligibility

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage through Justworks.
• Fertility coverage.
• Access to One Medical, Talkspace, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
• $250/month allowance if medical coverage is waived.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• Optional supplemental life, short- and long-term disability, accident, critical illness, and hospital coverage.
• FSA and HSA options.
• Stock options.
• Flexible paid time off (unlimited).
• Up to 80 hours of paid sick leave a year.
• 12 company holidays.

About the company

Unstructured is defining the standard for enterprise data transformation in the age of LLMs and generative AI. They power production AI workflows across commercial and federal sectors.