AI Engineer

About the Role

Clear Fracture is seeking an AI Engineer to help develop next-generation AI-driven products revolutionizing data integration. This position will focus on harnessing foundation models and other tools to create a multi-agent system capable of planning and implementing data pipelines. As part of the development team, you will coordinate with other disciplines to holistically design and create products.

Responsibilities

• Suggest ways requirements can be met via machine learning and other data science methods
• Decompose AI problems into solvable pieces and translate those solutions into code
• Prepare design specifications, conceptual diagrams, process flows, data models, prototypes, user interface designs, use cases, screen layouts, test plans, deployment plans, and system documentation
• Train and validate models and knowledge graphs, often in big data, distributed environments
• Perform model introspection to understand and explain model behaviors
• Integrate models into operational systems, including performing prompt engineering and domain specific refinement, coordinating multiple agents, and optimizing performance
• Efficiently develop software capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes, helping projects stay within budget and on schedule
• Review and test software for functionality and adherence to the design requirements and document test results
• Determine the efficacy of projects through repeatable, quantifiable means like industry standard benchmarking
• Educate others on the capabilities of projects via demonstrations, tutorials, or other means
• Work well within a team environment and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Stay up to date with developments in the field and continually learn how to apply the latest relevant advancements
• Lead trade studies, analyses of alternatives, and assessments of existing systems

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance are required due to the nature of this position and the information that employees will be required to access
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree and 12 years of experience in a science or engineering field
• Minimum of 8 years software development experience with Java, Python, and SQL
• Ability to describe the data assumptions and processing steps of common machine learning methods, and which methods are appropriate for a variety of use cases
• Deep understanding of transformer architectures, foundation model training and operations, and multi-GPU execution
• Expertise with ML libraries, like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Able to work independently and self-identify tasks
• Ability to review and maintain existing code and applications
• Ability to research and evaluate new concepts and processes to improve performance

Preferences

• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
• Experience with Spark, Elasticsearch, Containers, and Kubernetes; or related vector/graph databases and distributed processing platforms
• Familiarity deploying data and processing in commercial clouds like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
• Familiarity with visualization tools like Qlik, Tableau, Plotly, Kibana, and Matplotlib

What We Value

• Engineering mindset: You approach data systems as software systems, not just pipelines.
• Data intuition: You understand how to model real-world complexity into clear, usable structures.
• Product thinking: You care about how users interact with and understand data, not just how it is stored.
• Systems thinking: You see how data flows through services, APIs, and AI systems.
• Ownership: You take responsibility for the reliability and usability of what you build.
• Pragmatism: You balance ideal design with real-world constraints.
• Collaboration: You work effectively across engineering disciplines

Why Clear Fracture?

Clear Fracture is creating a new class of AI-powered data integration software for mission-critical government environments. We help national security organizations modernize and operationalize their data faster, giving the team the chance to work on problems that are technically complex and genuinely meaningful. Here, you will collaborate with engineers, AI researchers, and industry experts who are serious about building useful products, not hype. We value innovation, professional growth, recognition, and a balanced, high-trust work environment.