Senior AI Engineer (AWS)
General Dynamics Information Technology10 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$130k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship production autonomous and multi-agent systems using Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore.
- Select, integrate, customize, and evaluate foundation models and build RAG pipelines with retrieval-quality and RAG evaluation.
- Design scalable, highly available, secure AWS generative AI architectures using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Operationalize AI agents with automated evaluation, guardrails, observability, cost and latency optimization, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Own the reliability, quality, performance, privacy, security controls, and compliance of deployed AI agents.
- Develop reusable AI reference architectures and accelerators and support full-stack AWS solution plumbing for production GenAI applications.
- Partner with developers, cloud and security teams, customers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into cloud platform solutions.
- Serve as a customer-facing technical advisor, communicate architectural tradeoffs, mentor junior engineers, and present recommended AI approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI/Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Production experience designing, building, and operating AI agents or generative AI applications beyond prototypes or notebooks.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Q.
- Experience with foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG and RAG evaluation, vector databases, tool or function calling, multi-agent orchestration, memory, and agent evaluation.
- Experience with an agent framework such as Strands Agents, LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or the Bedrock Agents SDK.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK and CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML workloads.
- Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and APIs, including scalable and resilient architecture design.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, and operational support.
- Strong Python proficiency and software engineering practices including version control, testing, and code review.
- Strong architecture, troubleshooting, consulting, communication, and independent ownership skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- Preferred experience with AWS Well-Architected and GenAI reference architectures, reusable accelerators, LLMOps/MLOps, model evaluation, observability, prompt management, guardrails, fine-tuning, knowledge bases, vector stores, scientific research, federal government, healthcare, or regulated environments.
- Relevant AWS certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or Generative AI Developer – Professional, are preferred.
Benefits
- Full benefits including medical, dental, vision, health savings account options, 401(k) matching, disability, life, accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance.
- Paid time off includes vacation, sick, personal, parental, military, bereavement, jury duty leave, and paid holidays; new employees typically receive 15 paid leave days and 10 paid holidays annually, subject to proration.
- Paid Family Leave provides up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
- Remote candidates are considered, with a strong preference for working onsite in Rockville 2–3 days per week; the listed work arrangement is hybrid/remote.
- The role has a 40-hour scheduled workweek, no travel requirement, and requires onsite fingerprinting for the Public Trust investigation.
- Employees receive access to career development tools, internal mobility support, wellness programs, an innovation-focused culture, and a military-friendly workplace.
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About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.