Booz Allen

CybersecurityAI/MLEngineer

$78–78k McLean, Virginia, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Cybersecurity AI/ML Engineer at Booz Allen. Skills: Cybersecurity AI/ML, MLOps, Production engineering, Security operations. Build AI/ML systems. Scale AI/ML systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Measurably improve outcomes; Meet SOC throughput SLOs; Meet latency SLOs; Meet reliability SLOs

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Analytical problem-solving

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience ML engineering, 3+ years experience building production ML systems, Experience developing ML services across security tools, Experience applying AI/ML to cybersecurity use cases, Experience software engineering in Python for ML, Experience with modern AI/ML stack, Experience operationalizing AI/ML systems (MLOps)

What You'll Do.

Operationalize AI/ML systems

Turn models into services

Turn telemetry into services

Turn workflows into services

Improve prevention outcomes

Improve detection outcomes

Improve response outcomes

Improve recovery outcomes

Translate models into pipelines

Translate threat models into pipelines

Translate analyst needs into pipelines

Build production-grade data pipelines

Build production-grade feature pipelines

Build training systems

Build inference services

Build monitoring frameworks

Deploy across domains

Originate cross-functional efforts

Facilitate cross-functional efforts

Lead cross-functional efforts

Mature AI-enabled capabilities

Perform architecture reviews

Provide technical direction

Translate requirements into plans

Assess security problems

Assess platform problems

Align technical stakeholders

Align non-technical stakeholders

Drive decisions to closure

Design production AI/ML services

Build production AI/ML services

Deploy production AI/ML services

Engineer scalable data pipelines

Engineer scalable feature pipelines

Build inference services

Apply secure-AI practices

Apply MLSecOps practices

Integrate ML services into security tools

Integrate analytics into security workflows

Develop infrastructure-as-code

Enable repeatable ML pipelines

Enable testable ML pipelines

Enable version-controlled ML pipelines

Collaborate across teams

Embed ML practices into pipelines

Drive implementation through outcomes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Data science teams; Platform teams; Data teams; Threat intelligence teams; SOC operations teams

Communication Scope

Technical direction; Stakeholder alignment

Process & Methodology

MLOps, DevSecOps

Full Job Description

Cybersecurity AI/ML Engineer **The Opportunity****:** As a Cybersecurity AI/ML Engineer, you will operate as a hands-on technical contributor and engineering leader responsible for building, scaling, and operationalizing AI/ML systems that power Booz Allen's Cyber Operations teams. This role emphasizes production engineering and platform delivery, turning models, security telemetry, and analyst workflows into reliable, low-latency, observable services and pipelines that measurably improve prevention, detection, response, and recovery outcomes. You will bridge ML engineering and security operations by translating models, threat models, and analyst needs into production-grade data and feature pipelines, training systems, inference services, and monitoring frameworks deployed across cloud, network, endpoint, identity, and application telemetry domains. You will originate, facilitate, and lead cross-functional efforts to mature AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities, including real-time detection inference at scale, alert triage automation, LLM and agentic analyst tooling, and SOC platform integrations while guiding teams through MLSecOps, secure-AI engineering, and responsible AI practices. Perform code and architecture reviews, provide technical direction for complex ML systems initiatives, including SIEM, SOAR, and EDR ML integrations, cloud-native ML platforms for security, and GenAI services for analysts, and translate requirements into actionable, measurable implementation plans. Leverage strong software engineering, systems, and communication skills to assess complex security and platform problems, align technical and non-technical stakeholders, and drive decisions to closure in support of Booz Allen Hamilton's critical enterprise infrastructure, go-to-market platforms, and mission operations. The ideal candidate for our Enterprise Cybersecurity team is technically inclined, intellectually curious, and adaptable, with a strong cyber-defense mindset. They thrive in

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