Job Descriptions: Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. We have an exciting remote opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer who will deploy, secure, perform tuning, operate, and maintain agentic AI system and components, including models, chain server, time-slice GPU container cluster, embedding, indexing, and vector databases. Create an end-to-end pipeline to support business workflows to utilize AI agent systems. Support other business processes, automation and ideally supports systems and automation integration with Azure and O365. Design interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole. Assess performance of Agentic AI using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Understand business process automation potential, determines requirements, plans and implements these automated flows. Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts. Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements. Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. Review test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements. Required Experience: + Direct experience working with deploying/tuning RAG Agents (any platform) + Docker, Linux, GPU timeslicing with docker container engine, familiarity with various LLM and VLM models, understanding of various technical issues and resource constraint problems inherent with RAG components on GPU compute architecture. + At least 2- 3 years IT Automation Engineering experience with Bachelors (or 5-6 years total IT Automation Engineering experience in lieu.) Desired Skills and Experience + PowerShell, PowerAutomate, Exchange, Microsoft GraphAPI, Active Directory + Python, Bash, Windows, other automation and productivity tools (Powertoys,, Selenium, etc) + Kubernetes, NVIDIA NIM + Able to articulate various successful automation and productivity projects including overcoming challenges during implementation. #LI-Remote Competitive salary based on experience and education Salary Range: $93,000-$140,000 Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver. Keyword: LLM, VLM, RAG, Agentic AI, Embedding, Vector DB, IT automation, PowerAutomate, Powershell, Azure Administration, Exchange Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. EOE, Minorities, Females, Vet, Disabled, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or any other protected class. All qualified job seekers are encouraged to apply. Kratos Defense is committed to America's veterans by providing opportunities for them to continue contributing after service to our nation. We also work to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. EEO Is The Law (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf) Disability Accessibility Accommodation If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply to our careers site, please send your request to HRAccessibility@kratosdefense.com or call 858-964-2916. Any inquires not related to requesting an accommodation will be discarded. Pay Transparency The company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Job Applicant Privacy Notice For applicants in the EU and California residents, please review our privacy notice. From: Kratos Defense