ML/AIWork

Software Developer

Dezign Concepts LLC · Baltimore, US

Job description

DEZIGN CONCEPTS NOW HIRING

BUILD THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT SEARCH

Search, AI & User Experience Engineer

An IT-oriented office that supports analysts through the provision of large datasets, methodologies, and data visualizations to help address pressing intelligence questions. Seeks to ingest, clean, store, and analyze relevant data while improving and expanding its data infrastructure. POSITION SNAPSHOT JOB CODE

20260717-1466-02-01 SALARY

Up to $190K CLEARANCE

Active Top Secret with Poly Required****Make Mission-Critical Technology Easier to Use

Join a mixed-skills team providing project management, data science, User Interface (UI) design, User Experience (UX) research, and Software Engineering support to develop capabilities using Python scripts and packages, web-based applications, and automated workflows on a cloud environment to enable analysts to analyze and extract insights from massive data stores.

The right candidate combines thoughtful interface design with the technical depth to help shape scalable retrieval and LLM-integrated solutions.What You Will Do

  • Develop innovative user-interface designs in response to marketing requirements, user analyses, product innovation, technology, and business needs.
  • Develop conceptual models, workflows, design prototypes, and user-interface specifications.
  • Ensure user-interface guidelines and standards are followed during product development and maintenance.
  • Conduct or participate in product usability tests.
  • Communicate and work effectively with cross-functional team members. Which Candidate Profile Sounds Like You?

TIER 1

Ideal Candidate

  • Has designed and implemented production-grade RAG systems—not just prototypes or demos.
  • Deep hands-on Elasticsearch experience, including relevance tuning, schema design, and scaling strategies.
  • Strong understanding of hybrid search (BM25 + vector search) and when to use each.

Experience building end-to-end pipelines: data ingestion chunking embeddings retrieval* LLM integration.

  • Comfortable making architectural decisions and leading technical direction for search + AI systems.
  • Experience mentoring or upskilling engineers in search or LLM technologies. TIER 2

Acceptable Candidate

  • Has partial or adjacent experience with RAG, LLM integrations, or semantic search.
  • Solid experience with Elasticsearch or similar search platforms, but may lack deep optimization experience.
  • Strong React + Node/Express background with the ability to quickly ramp into the search/AI domain.
  • Has worked on APIs or systems that integrate external AI/ML services.
  • Demonstrates strong learning ability and can become a team multiplier with guidance. Technologies and Capabilities

React

Node.js

Express

Elasticsearch

RAG

Vector Search

BM25

LLM Integration

Embeddings

UX/UI Design

Usability Testing

Do Not Rule Yourself Out

Candidates do not need to meet every Tier 1 qualification to be considered. We welcome experienced search and AI leaders as well as strong full-stack engineers who have the technical foundation and learning agility to grow into this domain.Benefits Designed Around You

Health & Wellness

Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account and more.Life & Community

Paid Time Off, Holidays, Social Events, Employee Assistance Program and Team Building.Growth & Rewards

401K, Tuition Assistance, Annual and Referral Bonuses.Ready to Build What Comes Next?

Bring your UI/UX instincts, search expertise, and AI engineering experience to a team supporting meaningful missions.

APPLY NOW

Dezign Concepts, LLC

Main Number: 1-888-663-2690 | info@Dezign-Concepts.com | www.dezign-concepts.com

Active Top Secret Clearance with Polygraph is required for this opportunity.

Dezign Concepts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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