Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton3 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain AI agents capable of autonomously executing multi-step workflows.
- Develop agent architectures, decision-making logic, memory systems, state transitions, and orchestration frameworks.
- Integrate tools, APIs, external services, mission systems, and workflow-oriented components.
- Implement inference request flows, latency and token-limit handling, batching strategies, and distributed system patterns.
- Build evaluation, observability, monitoring, traceability, and governance approaches for agentic systems.
- Write integration tests for multi-service and multi-component systems.
- Collaborate with cyber operators, exploitation analysts, target analysts, systems engineers, and cyber capability developers.
- Deliver scalable, production-ready agentic solutions for distributed cyber mission environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing software systems in Python.
- Experience creating AI agents or multi-step LLM workflows, including agent behavior, sequencing, or state-transition logic.
- Experience integrating tools, APIs, or external services into AI-driven or workflow-oriented systems.
- Experience building or maintaining memory systems such as session state, long-term persistence, or vector-based retrieval.
- Experience implementing inference request flows, including latency, token limits, and batching strategies.
- Experience writing integration tests for multi-service or multi-component systems.
- Knowledge of containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed system patterns.
- Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science.
- Preferred experience includes multi-agent coordination, state machines, planners, decision graphs, agent evaluation and monitoring, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, resilience patterns, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are 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 regularly working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, subject to stated limitations.
- Employees may be required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility depending on the position’s remote, hybrid, or onsite designation.
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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).