Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, Mid at Everwatch
Annapolis Junction, MD
$64.9–$93.75/hrfrom the description
Jul 29, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An AI/ML Engineer role at a government defense contractor, working directly with intelligence and cyber analysts to build and deploy AI/ML solutions — including LLM-powered workflows and agent-based automation — in classified environments. The position spans the full development lifecycle: data pipelines, model evaluation, prompt engineering, and integration of AI capabilities into existing operational systems. Suited to engineers with hands-on ML deployment experience and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Mid level · 5+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,274 (middle half $105,061–$170,815). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title says 'Mid' but the required experience band is 5–10 years, which typically maps to Senior on most career ladders. The posting's own 'Mid' label is taken at face value for advertised seniority; the actual requirements support a Mid-to-Senior boundary, and Mid was chosen as the conservative call.
Degree requirement: the JD offers a Bachelor's as the baseline but also accepts a Master's with 3+ additional years or a PhD with applied AI/ML experience. Bachelor's is treated as the minimum hard gate.
TS/SCI with polygraph is explicitly required both in the qualifications block and the clearance section — this is a hard gate.
PyTorch and TensorFlow appear together under 'Nice If You Have' as interchangeable deep learning framework options.
Docker and Kubernetes appear together under 'Nice If You Have' as interchangeable containerization/orchestration options.
Java, Scala, C++, and R are listed together as alternative additional programming languages under 'Nice If You Have'; Java is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The role is located in Annapolis Junction, MD, which falls within the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson CBSA.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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