steampunk-posted 10 days ago
$140,000 - $190,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
McLean, VA

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior AI Developer to design, build, and optimize advanced AI solutions across predictive, generative, and autonomous system domains. This role requires strong hands-on engineering capabilities, deep familiarity with modern AI architectures, and the ability to translate mission needs into robust, production-ready AI capabilities. The Senior AI Developer will work across the full stack of AI development , from data ingestion and model experimentation to application integration, orchestration, and deployment , and will collaborate closely with product teams, LLMOps engineers, designers, and mission stakeholders. You will contribute to the growth of our AI & Data Exploitation Practice!

  • Develop end-to-end AI solutions including LLM-powered applications, predictive ML models, multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and specialized AI microservices.
  • Implement reusable AI components, libraries, and APIs that streamline application development and accelerate delivery across programs.
  • Integrate AI models with enterprise systems, APIs, data platforms, vector databases, and cloud-native services to deliver scalable mission capabilities.
  • Drive iterative experimentation, prototyping, and model improvement cycles in collaboration with Data Scientists and AI Evaluation Scientists.
  • Design and implement advanced prompt strategies, context management layers, retrieval systems, and LLM orchestration logic.
  • Build scalable inference services, optimize model performance, and collaborate with LLMOps to enable robust deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Translate user needs and mission workflows into intuitive, reliable AI-powered features through active partnership with designers and product teams.
  • Implement secure-by-design and trustworthy AI practices, including safety guardrails, input sanitization, content filtering, and integration of evaluation metrics.
  • Contribute to internal AI frameworks, code patterns, and shared accelerators that raise delivery quality across the AI & Data Exploitation Practice.
  • Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and support engineering excellence across multi-disciplinary AI delivery teams.
  • Stay current with emerging AI techniques, libraries, foundation models, and agent frameworks, evaluating their applicability to client missions.
  • Ability to hold a position of public trust with the U.S. government.
  • Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on AI/ML, generative AI, or LLM-driven application development.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks such as PyTorch , TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain , LlamaIndex , or similar.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and develop production-grade AI applications, including APIs, back-end services, orchestration logic, and front-end integrations (when needed).
  • Experience implementing RAG architectures , embeddings, vector stores, and context retrieval patterns.
  • Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration frameworks, prompt engineering strategies, and advanced LLM interaction design.
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including compute , serverless services, and security fundamentals for AI workloads.
  • Working knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines for AI-based systems.
  • Experience with structured and unstructured data, document processing, and application integration with existing enterprise systems.
  • Understanding of responsible AI principles including safety, fairness, privacy, and model risk mitigation.
  • Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, design, and mission domains.
  • Proven experience mentoring teammates and raising the technical bar of development teams.
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