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Navy Federal Credit Union · 13 hours ago

Associate AI Engineer

820 Follin Ln SE, Vienna, VA, 22180, US

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$99K/yr - $136K/yr

1+ years exp

Navy Federal Credit Union is focused on developing and deploying advanced AI productivity solutions within their AI Engineering team. The Associate AI Engineer will design and implement scalable AI systems, collaborate with various business units, and ensure compliance with AI governance and ethical standards.

AssociationFinancial ServicesNon Profit

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

As a member of the AI Center for Enablement (C4E), contribute to platform, engineering, and operations to drive the adoption and utilization of AI capabilities, fostering technological innovation and improving member experience through AI capabilities

Implement AI engineering solutions while adhering to established governance, validation, safety, and transparency guidelines

Develop AI capabilities using LLM models and evaluate outcomes to ensure accuracy, reduce hallucinations, and assure compliance

Build and manage data pipelines for structured and unstructured data ingestion

Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and other techniques to improve model accuracy and reduce hallucinations

Ensure compliance with AI governance, security, and ethical standards

Optimize application performance and scalability using cloud-native solutions

Participate in Agile development cycles and CI/CD processes for rapid deployment

Follow established AI standards and assist with model documentation and registration activities in the Model Catalog, in accordance with security and regulatory guidelines

Contribute to documentation and implementation of approved AI/ML roadmaps and technical plans

Support developer productivity initiatives by leveraging AI-assisted coding tools and contribute to AI-driven solutions

Deliver core engineering skills related to LLMs, prompt engineering, and applications delivery

Collaborate with senior team members to support initiatives that advance NFCU’s AI Center for Enablement capabilities

Qualification

AI solutions developmentPythonLarge Language ModelsNatural Language ProcessingSQLNoSQLAPI developmentData pipelinesCI/CDAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsProblem-solving skillsLeadership skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in AI Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or related technical field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience

1-2 years of experience in building AI solutions, including AI agents and chatbots, using industry-leading platforms (e.g., Azure AI Foundry)

Experience delivering solutions using Python, SQL and NoSQL capabilities

Experience with front-end and back-end development using frameworks like React, Angular, and Node.js, Django, or Flask respectively for creating user interfaces and services

Experience with API development and integration building RESTful APIs for connecting AI models to applications

Experience with LLMs (Large Language Models), prompt engineering, and fine-tuning

Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) using tokenization, embeddings, and conversational AI techniques

Experience with using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for grounding models in factual data and reducing hallucinations

Experience in building data pipelines and data preprocessing for structured and unstructured data sets using platforms such as Databricks or similar

Experience in using Vector Databases & Graph Databases for semantic search and recommendation systems

Enable Model Governance implementing transparency, bias detection, and compliance measures

Implement security controls ensuring safe deployment of AI models and protect sensitive data

Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git, and Agile methodologies

Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) as part of development workflows

Strong documentation, communication and presentation skills to explain designs and solutions to business and technical stakeholders

Demonstrated understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, debugging, unit testing, and writing maintainable, well-documented code

Familiarity with dependency management, logging, error handling, differences between development, test, and production environments

Experience evaluating AI and GenAI outputs, applying secure data-handling practices when working with sensitive information

Ability to work from defined technical requirements and implementation plans, incorporate feedback from code reviews, and communicate progress and tradeoffs clearly within cross functional teams

Preferred

Master's in AI Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or related technical field

Experience with AIOps and model performance tuning

Knowledge of Navy Federal Credit Union instructions, standards, and procedures

Company

Navy Federal Credit Union

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Since 1933, Navy Federal has grown from seven members to over 4 million members. And since that time, their vision statement has remained

Founded in 1933

Vienna, Virginia, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.navyfederal.org

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