Senior AI Solutions Engineer

Full Job Description

The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Nearly four million people come through our doors each year—with millions more online—making us one of the most visited art museums in the world.

Our renowned collection includes nearly 160,000 works of art, from the ancient world to today.

Admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.

Basic Requirements: For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below.

The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency at each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled.

Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

In addition to the basic qualification requirements above: Specialized Experience: For this position, specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable, ethical and interpretable AI systems that support information retrieval, metadata enrichment, data modeling and multimodal search.

Major Duties:

The Senior AI Solutions Engineer plays a key role in building enterprise software systems that leverage AI, machine learning (ML) and application programming interface (API) microservices to connect users with knowledge and insight embedded within the Gallery's vast holdings.

In this position you will: Lead the design and implementation of AI-enabled systems and tools that facilitate the discovery and exploration of art, library and archives collections.

Develop and maintain enterprise-grade AI services and APIs that integrate machine learning models (e.g., natural language processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, embeddings and knowledge graphs) into enterprise platforms.

Work collaboratively with developers, data scientists, digital experience program leaders, curators, librarians and archivists to translate institutional research and discovery goals into AI-driven applications.

Engage with the broader cultural heritage, academic and AI research communities to advance responsible innovation in AI for collections discovery.