SYSTEMS ENGINEER

About

The company is seeking a principal Systems Engineers to provide SETA support government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.

Responsibilities

• Support the review of architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
• Stay current on rapid changes in the AI ecosystem and provide informed recommendations on emerging tools and practices.
• Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, and prompt pipelines.
• Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, testability, guardrails, and data flow.
• Evaluate and compare modern AI frameworks, agentic libraries, and experimentation harnesses for suitability in mission use cases.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment, qualitative review, and workflow validation.
• Assist with the development of technical guidance, prototypes, engineering recommendations, and briefings for government stakeholders.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership to ensure AI efforts remain technically grounded and operationally relevant.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or computer science
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in systems engineering supporting DoD programs

Security Clearance

• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance required

Travel

• Some travel may be required.

Benefits

Systek offers a very comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, life, disability, and long-term care insurance, and also offers a 401k plan, paid time off, service anniversary awards, and tuition reimbursement.