Applied AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Fort Meade, MD, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, test, deploy, and operate end-to-end AI pipelines for mission systems.
- Develop reproducible AI/ML pipelines and automate operational workflows.
- Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows into production software stacks.
- Optimize data flow and support monitoring, observability, and resilient mission execution across hybrid compute environments.
- Collaborate with AI model engineers, data engineers, cloud architects, and ISSEs to align workflows with infrastructure and security requirements.
- Evaluate emerging AI and ML tools, frameworks, libraries, and deployment patterns.
- Help modernize mission workflows and define AI/ML strategy.
Requirements
- Experience developing with Python or Rust.
- Experience with Git.
- Experience integrating LLMs or agentic workflows within software stacks.
- Experience with containerization or orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
- HS diploma or GED and 6+ years of software engineering or AI/ML engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of relevant experience.
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Preferred qualifications include 10+ years of software engineering or AI/ML engineering experience.
- Preferred experience includes JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS, AI agent frameworks, and Retrieval Augmented Generation solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree and experience evaluating emerging AI/ML frameworks, libraries, or toolchains 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.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week may participate in Booz Allen benefit programs.
- The role may require travel up to 25% of the time.
- Remote employees may occasionally work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility; hybrid employees are expected to work frequently from a Booz Allen facility, and onsite employees primarily work at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
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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).