AI/ML Engineer

Description

Markon is seeking an AI/ML Engineer (Full Performance) to support an Intelligence Community client in McLean, Virginia. This position will design, develop, integrate, and maintain AI/ML-enabled applications supporting mission-critical enterprise capabilities, with a focus on large language model (LLM) integration, agent-based workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The AI/ML Engineer will work across application development, data engineering, and system integration to deliver scalable, reliable, and production-ready AI solutions that connect with enterprise tools, data sources, and existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain AI/ML-enabled applications, emphasizing LLM integration, agent-based workflows, and RAG capabilities. • Develop and support agentic AI architectures, including orchestration logic, tool integration, memory management, context handling, and connections to external systems. • Design, implement, and optimize RAG pipelines, including document processing, embedding generation, semantic retrieval, prompt assembly, and response optimization. • Develop and maintain Python-based services, REST APIs, backend components, and user-facing application features supporting enterprise AI solutions. • Integrate AI/ML applications with enterprise tools, databases, and structured or unstructured data sources. • Process, organize, and transform data to support AI model integration, retrieval workflows, and…