Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Job Description

ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED

We are seeking an experienced Lead AI / NLP Engineer specializing in agentic AI frameworks and automated knowledge extraction to join our team supporting critical defense and intelligence customer missions. In this role, you will train and deploy advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Named Entity Recognition (NER) models for Large Language Model (LLM) solutions using LangGraph.

You will lead both supervised and unsupervised model training and validation workflows to perform dynamic knowledge extraction across multilingual, unstructured data streams without a predefined ontology. Additionally, you will work closely with customer data sources, implement robust data quality techniques, and navigate enterprise compliance and policy requirements to ensure end-user readiness and accessibility.

The annual base salary range for this role is $156,000-$184,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

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Required Skills

Agentic AI & LangGraph: Hands-on proficiency developing, orchestrating, and training NLP/NER capabilities for LLM solutions within agentic AI frameworks (specifically LangGraph).

NLP & Knowledge Extraction

Strong experience in both supervised and unsupervised model training, fine-tuning, and validation for automated knowledge extraction from unstructured, multi-language natural language data without relying on a predefined ontology.

Data Retrieval & Preprocessing

Deep understanding of customer data sources, retrieval techniques, and data preprocessing pipelines required to generate high-quality training and evaluation datasets.

Data Quality & Pipeline Readiness

Mastery of techniques to validate, clean, and enrich training data to ensure high data quality and seamless system integration.

Enterprise Compliance & Governance

Strong understanding of enterprise data compliance, security policies, and governance protocols to ensure AI solutions meet regulatory standards and end-user access controls.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 10+ years of professional experience in data science, NLP, or software engineering OR Associate's Degree PLUS 12+ years of specialized technical experience in lieu of a degree.

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Desired Skills

Multilingual NLP: Experience with cross-lingual embeddings, multilingual transformer architectures, and low-resource language processing.

Vector Databases & RAG

Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, vector stores (e.g., Qdrant, ChromaDB, PGVector, Pinecone), and semantic search indexing.

Modern AI Tech Stack

Proficiency in Python and modern ML/DL libraries (PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, SpaCy, LangChain).

MLOps & Deployment

Experience deploying containerized AI microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) and setting up MLOps pipelines for continuous model monitoring and evaluation.

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About Nyla Technology Solutions

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry.

We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done.

If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla’s team,

Taking Care of All of You

Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.

The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule.

PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!

LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave.

That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!

SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It's flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!

WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS? Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1!

Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place.

To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here.

Nyla is an equal opportunity employer.