AI Developer Engineer

About this role

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit www.unissant.com.

We are seeking an AI Developer/Engineer to join our team and support our client, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This is a remote position.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on AI/ML engineer who can develop, evaluate, tune, and operationalize secure and maintainable AI capabilities for FEMA mission programs. This individual will deliver solutions across Azure Ready AI and other FEMA-approved platforms, including AWS, GCP, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, and CRM/SaaS environments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and productionize RAG applications, chatbots, document translation and summarization services, predictive models, anomaly-detection capabilities, and routing/optimization solutions.
• Evaluate new AI use cases and provide feasibility, architecture, cost, complexity, schedule, and solution-stack estimates.
• Select appropriate algorithms; prepare and engineer data; train, validate, tune, document, and monitor models.
• Define and maintain model-performance metrics, evaluation processes, monitoring, and improvement approaches.
• Integrate AI/ML models with full-stack applications and enterprise workflows through APIs, approved cloud AI services, and secure data pipelines.
• Implement MLOps and DevSecOps practices, including git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and controlled deployments.
• Support AI security boundaries, ATO artifacts, data governance, role-based access controls, and model/applicat...