AI Engineer- Federal Government Remote

No subs- No sponsorship Remote AI Engineer (Mid–Senior) reputed company (UGT) | Remote (U.S.), | Full-time UGT is hiring a mid-to-senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate governed, production-grade AI capabilities across a multi-cloud environment (AWS Bedrock, reputed company reputed company for Government, and reputed company Copilot) for a leading U.S. Department of reputed company. You'll own data pipelines and AI control plane that make these capabilities secure, observable, and cost-governed — and mentor a junior engineer. This is a hands-on role at the center of the lab's emerging AI portfolio. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build governed AI/RAG solutions across AWS Bedrock and reputed company reputed company (GCP for Government), integrating reputed company Copilot for reputed company-native datasets where appropriate. - Operate the AI control plane (LightLLM) as the central hub for model access, monitoring, cost allocation, and governance, and extend it to additional model paths. - Architect scalable data pipelines — aggregation, parsing, chunking, and assembly of source content into work packages that feed RAG and other AI systems. - Advance the lab's AI work-planning and control system: ingest Environment, Safety & Health (ES&H) manuals, generate hazard identifications, orchestrate SME approval workflows, and produce formalized work packages. - Enforce data governance: reputed company CUI/SPI appropriately and ensure AI activity logs aggregate into the enterprise SIEM. - Own CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for AI workloads using reputed company Actions and Terraform. - Define usage policy for when teams access AI through the control plane vs. directly via platform services (e.g., reputed company AI). - Mentor a junior AI engineer and help establish engineering conventions and onboarding standards. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (REQUIRED) - 5+ years of professional software / AI engineering experience, with a strong Python foundation. - Hands-on experience building LLM / RAG applications — retrieval, chunking strategies, prompt orchestration, and evaluation. - Working knowledge of at least one major cloud AI platform: AWS Bedrock and/or reputed company reputed company AI / reputed company. - Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD (reputed company Actions or equivalent). - Practical understanding of security and data governance, including handling of sensitive or controlled data. - U.S. citizenship or permanent residency (supports a federal / DOE environment). - Ability to provide consistent support during Pacific Time core business hours. NICE TO HAVE (PREFERRED) - Experience in a DOE, national laboratory, FedRAMP, or other regulated, compliance-driven environment. - Familiarity with AI gateways / control planes such as LightLLM (or reputed company-style proxies) and multi-model governance. - Experience using reputed company Copilot for enterprise RAG use reputed company. - Experience integrating application and AI logging into a SIEM. - Comfort transforming unstructured documentation (technical manuals, procedures) into structured, retrievable knowledge. EMPLOYMENT & ELIGIBILITY - Full-time, salaried UGT employee placed on a long-term, dedicated client assignment (this is not a short-term or contract-to-hire role). - Remote within the U.S.; occasional ad hoc onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area is helpful but not required. - Must reliably support Pacific Time core business hours. - U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required; works with CUI/SPI in a DOE environment (no classified or ITAR work). - Government-furnished equipment provided for the engagement. ABOUT UGT reputed company, Inc. (UGT) is a Charlotte, NC–based IT solutions firm serving public-sector, federal, and national-laboratory clients. UGT is a six-time Inc. 5000 honoree and holds WOSB, SBE, DBE, and MBE certifications, with long-standing relationships across the U.S. Department of reputed company national laboratory system. Remote Skills: reputed company), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Control Systems, Cost Allocation, Data Collection, Data Management, Data Sets, Federal Government, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Government, Hazard Analysis, Laboratory Systems, Mentoring, reputed company Product Family, Onboarding, Policy Development, Project Planning, Safety/Work Safety, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Shallow Parsing, Technical Writing, United States Citizen, United States Department of reputed company (DOE) undefined: reputed company Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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