Job Locations: US-VA-McLean Location Classification: Hybrid - In Office & Teleworking Overview: This position will work closely with IQT’s government partners to understand their technology challenges and use their mastery of technology to investigate and recommend potential solutions from the venture-backed startup ecosystem, for both immediate mission needs and long term readiness. Demonstrated e xpertise in applied AI/ML, generative and multimodal AI, enterprise search, agentic systems, workflow automation, NLP, or production AI engineering : Experience designing, evaluating, deploying, or securing LLMs, multimodal models, RAG systems, AI agents, or human-AI decision-support tools.