[Remote] AI Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anika Systems is an outcome-driven technology solutions firm that guides federal agencies in solving complex business challenges and preparing for the future. The AI Engineer will design and deliver production AI systems across commercial platforms and federal modernization programs, owning work end-to-end including data, model integration, services, UI, infrastructure, security, and deployment.ResponsibilitiesThe AI Engineers will design and deliver production AI systems across our commercial platform work and our federal modernization programsThis is a hands-on builder role on a small, senior teamEngineers own work end-to-end including data, model integration, services, UI, infrastructure, security, and deploymentYou will be expected to make sound technical calls under federal compliance, security, and procurement constraintsSkillsMust be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearanceEducation: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field; Master's is a bonusExperience: 1-3 years of professional experience building and shipping ML or NLP systems, including focus on LLM based or Generative AI solutionsStrong production experience in Python and TypeScript, with modern web frameworks on both sides (e.g. FastAPI, React)Hands-on integration of LLMs into real applications — streaming, tool / function calling, token accounting, and failure handling — across at least one of OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, or Azure OpenAIExperience designing agentic systems: multi-step workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop guardrailsSolid relational data modeling on PostgreSQL with an async ORM and migration toolingAWS fluency (compute, storage, IAM, secrets, networking, observability) and infrastructure-as-code, ideally TerraformPractical understanding of OAuth / OIDC, JWT, RBAC, multi-tenant isolation, and least-privilege designDisciplined testing, linting, and type-checking habits; reviewable diffs and clear written communicationFederal program exposure: NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, ATO process, or agency-specific data-handling requirementsExperience with Keycloak or another OIDC provider, RLS-based multi-tenancy, or zero-trust application designWorking knowledge of a data/lakehouse platform (Databricks, Snowflake) and SQL beyond CRUDDocument AI / OCR pipelines and modernization of legacy enterprise workflowsProduction observability (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and incident-response experienceSupply-chain hardening: SBOMs, dependency scanning, signed builds, threat modelingCompany OverviewAnika Systems provides data and analytics, artificial automation, cloud engineering, application development & enterprise IT modernization. It was founded in 2005, and is headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.anikasystems.com/.