AI Mission Integration Specialist

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Specializes in at least one core language or platform, expands tooling and languages as needed, applies design patterns, basic automation and testing, cloud fundamentals, DevOps basics, and database design concepts.

• Work & Complexity: Handles issues of moderate scope, builds and integrates external dependencies, reviews code, and contributes independently to project milestones.

• Quality & Independence: Estimates work, meets deadlines with few errors, improves monitoring and testing, and exercises judgment within defined processes.

• Teamwork & Communication: Actively shares information, keeps stakeholders informed, and develops productive relationships across teams.

• Consulting & Engagement: Communicates appropriately with clients, learns firm services to spot opportunities, and offers technical recommendations with guidance.

AIS is supporting the OUSW Policy Program, which has a need for a unified 'personnel data tracker' platform using big data model tooling to consistently address personnel data across various departments, and document the challenges when faced with disparate data sources and organizational restructuring across multiple agencies.

• Collaborate directly with operational teams to understand their daily tasks, challenges, and strategic objectives.

• Analyze existing workflows to identify and prioritize opportunities for AI-driven automation, analysis, and decision support.

• Translate complex mission requirements into well-defined problems that can be addressed by the AI platform.

• Recommend the most effective AI tool for the task, whether it's leveraging Microsoft Copilot for productivity within DoD365 applications or using one of the Department's various AI tools, for deep analysis and specialized tasks.

• Design, develop, and meticulously refine complex, multi-step prompts to elicit precise, accurate, and relevant outputs from the AI.

• Engineer and document end-to-end AI workflows that integrate seamlessly into existing operational processes.

• Conduct iterative testing and quality assurance on AI-generated outputs to ensure they meet mission standards for accuracy and reliability.

• Serve as the primary point of contact and lead evangelist for AI best practices within the organization.

• Develop and deliver training materials, workshops, and best-practice guides to upskill personnel on effective AI utilization.

• Ensure AI-driven workflows and data handling comply with IL5 security protocols, including proper management of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

• Educate users on the platform's operational limits, emphasizing the strict prohibition against processing PII or PHI.

• Bachelor's degree OR 4+ years of equivalent experience in a relevant field.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in or directly supporting a DoD, Intelligence Community (IC), or other national security mission.

• Hands-on experience using large language models (LLMs), Microsoft Copilot for 365, or other generative AI platforms within a professional environment.

• Proven ability to write clear, effective prompts for generative AI.

• Experience building or integrating RESTful APIs or microservices.

• Familiarity with managing data preprocessing, labeling, and QA for AI integration.

• Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering, business process analysis, or as a liaison between technical and operational teams.

• Experience working with databases, document stores, or data lakes.

• Must have an Active Secret Clearance, with the ability and willingness to obtain a TS/SCI.

• Experience with basic scripting or programming (e.g., Python) for task automation or data manipulation.

• Familiarity with creating and delivering technical training to a non-technical audience.

• Specific domain expertise in one of our customer's key mission areas (e.g., defense policy, analytics, and personnel management).

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.