AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton2 days ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Train, test, deploy, and maintain AI/ML models and LLM-powered systems.
- Define technical direction and select best-fit ML algorithms and technologies for critical solutions.
- Build complex data pipelines, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and AI integrations for production environments.
- Implement advanced prompting strategies, orchestration frameworks, inference engines, embeddings, and vector databases.
- Translate early-stage prototypes into robust, scalable production systems.
- Optimize system latency, throughput, performance, and reliability.
- Collaborate with data engineering, data science, solutions architecture, MLOps, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.
- Help guide national security customers through AI/ML algorithms, tools, frameworks, and strategy.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI systems development using Python.
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining LLM-powered systems and complex data pipelines in production.
- Experience with advanced prompting, LangChain or LlamaIndex, vLLM or TGI, tool calling, and agentic workflows.
- Experience integrating embeddings, vector databases such as LanceDB, pgvector, and Elasticsearch, and RAG pipelines.
- Ability to build scalable production systems and optimize latency, throughput, performance, and reliability.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred experience includes MLOps, DevOps, infrastructure, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, model architectures, inference optimization, open-source model fine-tuning, distributed systems, Kafka, and enterprise microservice architectures.
- An existing Secret clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in benefits programs; employees below that threshold receive select offerings excluding health benefits.
- Virtual employees are generally expected to keep cameras on during meetings, and remote roles may occasionally require work at a Booz Allen or customer facility; hybrid and onsite expectations depend on the listed work model.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).