Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Evaluation & V&V

About the Role: At Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. As a Senior AI Engineer focused on Agentic Evaluation and Verification and Validation (V&V), you will join our R&D organization to advance how intelligent systems are evaluated and validated for mission-critical space operations.

What You'll Do

• Build and scale evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and simulation-backed validation systems for agentic AI workflows (LLMs and reinforcement learning).
• Extend and maintain Slingshot's V&V SDK and evaluation framework.
• Design and implement agent-level and end-to-end evaluations, scoring logic, and experiment harnesses.
• Translate astrodynamics and mission-domain concepts into executable evaluation scenarios.
• Define and apply metrics for capability evaluation, failure analysis, and comparative benchmarking.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or applied AI.
• Strong Python engineering skills with experience building SDKs, libraries, or evaluation tooling.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, metrics, or test harnesses for AI/ML systems.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Bonus: Experience in autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, LangGraph, or space-domain modeling.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from $150,000 to $250,000 per year.
• Opportunity to directly impact global security, disaster response, and the next generation of space operations.
• Fully remote work flexibility within the United States.