[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Leidos jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/leidos/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Leidos · Linthicum Heights, MD # Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer (SWE-2) Linthicum Heights, MD $87,100.00 - $157,450.00 Operations Listed on Leidos’s official careers site. Listed as of October 18, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Leidos’s careers site →](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Linthicum-Heights-MD/Artificial-Intelligence--AI--Engineer--SWE-2-_R-00188081) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Leidos](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/leidos/) / Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer (SWE-2) ## Job description ### 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. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Not stated - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 7 days - Location: Linthicum Heights, MD - Pay: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00[Apply on Leidos’s careers site →](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Linthicum-Heights-MD/Artificial-Intelligence--AI--Engineer--SWE-2-_R-00188081) ## More jobs at Leidos ### [Senior AI Engineer (SWE-3)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/leidos/jobs/11ae7576dc787d58ae02/) Linthicum Heights, MD ### [Cybersecurity Systems Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/leidos/jobs/6999abdc8f84bda6f22f/) Linthicum Heights, MD ### [Principal Cybersecurity Systems Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/leidos/jobs/f457fdd60ddf024b2120/) Linthicum Heights, MD ### [2nd Line Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/leidos/jobs/31e67988c094259579e0/) Huntingdon, UK ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Quantum Engineer - Artificial Intelligence and Devices](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/c601343dfa863044295a/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ### [Software Cyber Engineer - SWE 0](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/d51a32bd7a4b30174d1e/) Lockheed Martin · Hanover, MD ### [Artificial Intelligence Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/slb/jobs/4ace30361a8bb6c408ec/) SLB · Houston ### [Enterprise Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Lead](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/booz-allen-hamilton-holding/jobs/860eafd79c642b15c2de/) Booz Allen Hamilton Holding · McLean, VA ### [Senior Engineer Artificial Intelligence](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/tata-consultancy-services/jobs/a71d3fc3caf5f2f728be/) Tata Consultancy Services · Santa Clara, CA OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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