Senior Data AI Engineer

About this role

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time (W-2)
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required

IntelliTech is seeking a Senior Data / AI Engineer to support a Department of War program focused on operationalizing a Government-owned digital twin application for ammunition industrial base readiness. The platform is a supply chain simulation solution built on Python, FastAPI, and React that enables analysts to model production timelines, identify bottlenecks, assess supply chain risk, and evaluate surge and modernization scenarios.

This role will own the data lifecycle end-to-end—from raw file ingestion through validation, normalization, versioning, and delivery of run-ready artifacts to the simulation engine. The engineer will also help design and implement the AI-enabled decision-support layer, supporting natural-language analysis of scenario outputs, automated comparison and briefing generation, and guided scenario creation.

This is a hands-on role on a lean, senior team. The ideal candidate is comfortable writing production code daily, designing scalable data pipelines, and working directly with Government analysts and data stakeholders to deliver mission-focused solutions.

### Key Responsibilities

#### Data Ingestion and Automation

• Design and implement governed ingestion pipelines for complex defense supply chain datasets, including Bills of Materials (BOM), demand and order backlogs, facility and production line capacity, supplier risk, and acquisition planning data.
• Build validation services that enforce schema conformance, referential integrity across linked datasets, circular reference detection, and business-rule validation with actionable row- and column-level feedback.
• Implement raw data preservation in object storage such as **Amazon S3**, including metadata capture for source type, upload timestamp, uploader identity, file checksum, and dataset version.
• Develop canonical data transformation workflows that conver...