**Introduction** Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business. Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us. **Your role and responsibilities** IBM Technology Expert Labs is hiring an AI/ML Engineer who is passionate about helping Government clients use the latest Data and AI computing technologies to solve their real-world problems. You will work closely with Government clients and IBM consultants, technology experts, and product development teams to collect, organize and analyze data to use Data Science and AI to address mission needs. As a Data & AI Consultant in the IBM Technology Expert Labs Delivery organization, you will work in an agile, collaborative environment, partnering with customer stakeholders, to develop mission-based solutions with US Government customers to: * Assess customer mission requirements and architect appropriate data science solutions to meet mission needs * Develop data science and AI solutions using Cloud Pak for Data technologies such as watsonx.ai, watsonx.assistant, watsonx.governance, watsonx.data. * Deploy innovative Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx solutions across a variety of cloud platforms * Exploit the data fabric architecture of Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx.data to accelerate data science and AI Who You Are: * You have strong technical and analytical abilities, a knack for driving impact and growth, and experience with cloud native computing technologies * You are great at solving problems, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing & implementing solutions * You have excellent communication skills and are adept at describing complex technical issues to a non-technical audience. * You are technically forward-thinking, passionate about embracing new technology and developing your technical skills, such as in Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx **Required technical and professional expertise** · US Citizen with Federal Gov't. delivery experience · Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an engineering discipline · Location in Washington, DC metro area · Experience and/or proficiency in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and/or Natural Language Processing including foundation models · Experience architecting and building systems on commercial cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure) **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Active Top Secret / SCI with Full Scope or CI Polygraph Clearance * Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience * Experience with Linux container orchestration using Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and/or Kubernetes