Advisor Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Responsibilities

We are seeking an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions Architect as a senior technical authority on the CMS Fraud Prevention Services (FPS) team, owning the integration architecture that allows three external agentic AI vendors be onboarded into vendor-isolated enclaves inside the FPS ATO boundary. This role will develop AI solutions using Peraton tools to detect fraud, waste, and abuse.

Responsibilitie includes the following:

• Design the integration architecture for onboarding third-party agentic AI tools into vendor-isolated DISM enclaves inside the FPS ATO boundary. • Author a common data package specification (schema, sampling strategy, PHI/PII handling, refresh cadence, packaging) that every evaluated vendor consumes. • Define the per-vendor integration pattern for data access, identity federation, audit-log routing, and tenant isolation. • Provide deep, hands-on LLM and agentic-AI expertise (RAG, fine-tuning, tool-use/MCP, multi-agent orchestration, LLMOps) to internal Peraton teams and CMS technical stakeholders. • Ensure every architectural design embeds security, quality, PHI/PII, and governance controls appropriate to the FPS environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD • Deep hands-on expertise with LLM architectures and agentic AI systems: fine-tuning (LoRA/PEFT), RAG, prompt engineering, tool-use/MCP, multi-agent orchestration • Ability to be highly independent…