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Senior AI Engineer

Arlington, Virginia, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-01

Core

Design and build production-grade agentic AI systems, agent architectures, and infrastructure to solve complex real-world problems for government agencies.

Role type

Senior IC agentic AI engineer

Builds

Production agentic AI systems, agent runtimes, tool execution environments, and scalable inference services

Domain

Government / Agentic AI / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, agent architecture design, LLM inference and context engineering, distributed systems, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, API design, automated evaluation frameworks, observability, debugging complex failures

Preferred skills

Security clearance, multi-agent architectures, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, secure code execution environments, AI security and adversarial testing

Technologies

Python, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, LLMs

Responsibilities

Design agent architectures for reasoning, planning, and multi-step task execution; Build tools for agents to securely interact with data, APIs, and external systems; Develop model and inference infrastructure supporting multiple language models; Build automated evaluation frameworks to measure agent quality and reliability; Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost; Translate emerging AI research into production improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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