Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with client teams to document workflows, systems, data flows, decision points, and exception paths.
- Create operating maps and automation roadmaps that allocate work among deterministic software, agent judgment, and human approvals.
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents across existing tools, APIs, and enterprise data sources.
- Develop evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, regression tests, monitoring, audit trails, and performance metrics.
- Scale agents from shadow mode to increasing autonomy and production deployment.
- Lead workforce training, change management, adoption, and role redesign around automation supervision.
- Codify field learnings into reusable playbooks, components, and shared engineering capabilities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, technical advising, or solutions engineering.
- 4+ years of experience building applications with generative and agentic AI technologies such as LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, or multi-agent orchestration.
- Experience deploying LLM-powered systems or AI agents to production, including evaluation, monitoring, and post-launch iteration.
- Production coding experience with Python or TypeScript.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems and data sources such as ERP, CRM, ITSM, or knowledge repositories.
- Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders to elicit requirements, map processes, and guide technology adoption.
- Knowledge of evaluation techniques for non-deterministic systems, including golden datasets, regression testing, and human-in-the-loop feedback.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time and hold a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Preferred qualifications include Department of War or Department of the Army experience, agent development and orchestration experience, forward-deployed engineering experience, organizational change management, BPMN or value-stream mapping, cloud and containerized deployment, automation-impact measurement, a master’s degree, and Agile or cloud certification.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement, with occasional required work at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and employee benefits eligibility for full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis.
- Up to 10% travel may be required.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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).