Data Engineer (AI) Senior Engineer (5143) (TS/SCI) (Ft. Belvoir, VA - Nolan Bldg)

Job description

SMX is seeking a Data Engineer (AI) Senior Engineer to contribute to the development and sustainment of data pipelines and data services that enable AI/ML capabilities within Army Intelligence mission environments. This role focuses on preparing transforming, and delivering reliable data to support model training, inference, and analytic workflows. The Data Engineer (AI) Senior Engineer partners with AI/ML engineers, analysts, platform teams, and mission leadership to align data capabilities with operational outcomes, security, and governance. This is a full-time onsite position in Ft. Belvoir, VA. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Data Pipeline Development & Maintenance: - Build, maintain, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines that supply structured and unstructured data to AI/ML workflows. - Implement data ingestion, cleansing, transformation, normalization, and feature preparation steps according to established methods. - Ensure pipelines are reliable, repeatable, and well-documented. Data Quality, Validation & Monitoring: - Perform data profiling, validation, and integrity checks to ensure high-quality inputs to AI/ML models. - Monitor data pipeline performance and data flow health...