Principal Agentic AI Full Stack Software Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology1 hour ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$143k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop clean, maintainable, and efficient Python code for AI analytics capabilities.
- Design and implement AI-enabled web applications and analytics using Streamlit, React, or similar technologies.
- Integrate LLM capabilities including prompting, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, task planning, and multi-step execution.
- Design, develop, and integrate APIs, including FastAPI-based services, to connect systems and AI workflow components.
- Build user interfaces that make AI, data, and analytics capabilities accessible to end users.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based deployments.
- Work with PostgreSQL and MySQL to support data integrity, performance, and efficiency.
- Maintain Git-based version control and collaborate across the software development lifecycle.
- Implement reliable AI workflows with validation, error handling, retries, logging, and fallback strategies.
- Ensure solutions meet standards for security, quality, reliability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Current TS/SCI clearance with an active or obtainable CI polygraph.
- U.S. citizenship is required due to U.S. government contract requirements.
- Proficiency in Python, Docker, Git-based workflows, web technologies, containerization, RESTful APIs, and user interface development.
- Experience building AI-enabled web applications, analytic dashboards, or user workflows using Streamlit or similar technologies.
- Experience designing scalable backend solutions with Python frameworks and working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Hands-on full stack development experience and understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- React experience and familiarity with component-based UI development, state management, and reusable frontend patterns are desired.
- Experience with LLM-powered agentic workflows, cloud-native development, DevSecOps, secure software delivery, or MLOps concepts is desired.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account options, and a 401(k) plan with company match.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance offerings.
- AI-powered career development tools and internal mobility support.
- Military-friendly workplace and culture of innovation.
- Full flex work weeks where possible, though this position is onsite in Crystal City, Virginia.
- 40 scheduled hours per week with optional CONUS travel; stated travel requirement is 10–25%.