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Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

Job Responsibilities/Qualifications:

  • Mission Focus: Collaborate closely with technical leadership to design, develop, and maintain LLM orchestration frameworks that coordinate static analyzers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and automated testing pipelines. Develop and optimize data preprocessing pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and vectorize product documentation, source code, and test results for LLM consumption. Design and implement database solutions to support RAG architectures, artifact storage, audit trails, and metadata management.

  • Technical Proficiency: Collaboratively work with systems engineers to architect and deploy networked AI tools within secure enclaves and conduct performance profiling, optimization, and scalability analysis of mission systems. Support security assessments and authority to operate (ATO) processes.

  • Qualifications: Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of relevant experience or equivalent. Proficiency in Python, LLM integration, and data engineering. Experience with static analyzers, RAG framework, and relational and vector databases. Familiarization with Agile, Git, Jira, and Confluence.

  • Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

  • Desirable Skills: Familiarization with RUST, Claude Code, Codex, and CI/CD.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

July 24, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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  • Role Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer (SWE-2)
  • Experience 3-4 years
  • Education Bachelor Degree
  • Work type On-site
  • Location United States
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Leidos
Government & Public Sector · 500+ Members · Reston, VA, United States

Leidos is a Virginia-headquartered technology, engineering, and science company serving government and regulated markets.

Leidos delivers digital modernization, cybersecurity, intelligence, defense, aviation, space, health, energy, infrastructure, and mission support solutions.

Job Overview

Approx. salary range

185K – 265K

Our estimate — this employer did not publish a salary

Our estimate, not the employer’s. Worked out from the middle half of 37 comparable roles on Neural Jobs that did publish a salary, in the same field, country and experience band. The real figure for this job may be different.

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United States Right to work in the United States required.
Workplace
On-site
Job Posted:
2 months ago
Job Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelor Degree
Experience
3-4 years

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