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Systems Engineer 6 (AI-focused)

Base-2 Solutions, LLCAnnapolis, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This AI-focused Systems Engineer role at Base-2 Solutions offers incredible growth potential, allowing you to shape cutting-edge cloud and AI/ML systems while ensuring technical integrity across the full system lifecycle. You'll thrive here if you possess deep systems engineering expertise and a passion for AWS, AI/ML, and data management, contributing to impactful projects within a highly reputable organization. Apply now to leverage your skills and advance your career in a dynamic technological landscape.

Quick Overview

Salary
$10k/yr
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

  • Requisition ID: 3489
  • Standard Title: Principal Systems Engineer
  • Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
  • Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
  • Work Type: On-Site
  • Shift: First
  • Referral Eligibility: Eligible
  • U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes

Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Systems Engineer 6 to apply senior systems engineering expertise across the full system life cycle, ensuring the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work products and deliverables. This role supports AI-focused cloud and platform engineering efforts, with emphasis on AWS, AI/ML systems, security, and data lifecycle management.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Apply systems engineering principles throughout the system life cycle phases of concept, development, production, utilization, support, and retirement.
  • Interface with the Government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
  • Communicate with program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
  • Maintain responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 ISO/IEC 15288 process areas.
  • Support technical process areas including stakeholder requirements definition, requirements analysis, architectural design, implementation, integration, verification, transition, validation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
  • Support project process areas including project planning, project assessment and control, decision management, risk management, configuration management, information management, and measurement.
  • Support enterprise process areas including project portfolio management, infrastructure management, lifecycle model management, human resource management, and quality management.
  • Support agreement process areas including acquisition and supply.
Required Qualifications
  • Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.
  • Experience in systems engineering sufficient to meet one of the stated education/experience pathways.
  • Experience applying systems engineering principles across the full system life cycle.
  • Ability to ensure technical integrity, quality, and completeness of systems engineering deliverables.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with Government stakeholders, program personnel, and senior executives.
  • Experience with cloud architecture, cloud engineering, or platform engineering, especially in AWS.
  • Experience with AI/ML system design and implementation.
  • High-level understanding of the AI lifecycle, including development, training, inference, and monitoring.
  • Experience with ML pipeline development, model deployment, and DevOps/MLOps.
  • Experience with system security and networking, particularly implementation of system security on classified systems.
  • Experience with data engineering and data lifecycle management.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with varied stakeholder groups and the ability to proactively engage them to understand requirements and inform system architecture decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Amazon SageMaker.
Required Education and Experience Equivalency
  • High School Diploma/GED with 24 years of experience.
  • Associates Degree with 24 years of experience.
  • Bachelors' Degree with 20 years of experience.
  • Masters' Degree with 18 years of experience.
  • PhD with 18 years of experience.
Required Certifications
  • None specified.
Required Security Clearance
  • Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

Pay & Benefit Highlights
Compensation
  • Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
  • Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
  • Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).
Health
  • 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
  • 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
  • 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Income Protection
  • 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
  • 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
  • 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
  • 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.
Retirement
  • 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
  • 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.
Leave
  • Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
  • 11 paid floating holidays.
Work-Life Balance
  • Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).

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Skills

AWS
MLOps

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