Guidehouse

AI Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Guidehouse
Location
McLean, VA
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
$98K – $163K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-04-22 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

ml pipelinesvector indexesretrieval-augmented generationagentic workflowsllmstraditional mlembeddingsfine-tuningragfunction/tool callingprompt orchestrationtroubleshooting

From the posting

Job Family Engineering Consulting Travel Required Up to 10% Clearance Required None What You Will Do Build, test, and deploy AI applications and services, translating solution designs and reference architectures into working, demo-ready components. Implement data and ML pipelines (ingest, transform, feature stores, vector indexes) and wire up retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows. Package and serve models (LLMs and traditional ML) via APIs and microservices using containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Stand up and maintain cloud resources and AI platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP; Palantir; Databricks), including CI/CD, IaC (e.g., Terraform), secrets, and observability. Integrate AI capabilities (prompt orchestration, tool/function calling, embeddings, fine-tuning) into applications and services. …

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