Agentic AI Forward-Deployed Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with program teams to document workflows, systems, data flows, decision points, and exception paths.
- Create operating maps and automation roadmaps that prioritize workflows and assign responsibilities across deterministic software, AI agents, and human approval.
- Design, build, integrate, and deploy AI agents across existing enterprise tools, APIs, and data sources.
- Develop evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, regression tests, and feedback processes for non-deterministic systems.
- Scale agents from shadow mode through increasing autonomy into production while monitoring performance and outcomes.
- Instrument agents with audit trails, monitoring, and metrics for transparency, risk reduction, time savings, and business value.
- Drive adoption through change management, workforce training, role redesign, and stakeholder engagement.
- Create reusable playbooks and components and share field feedback with the Global Defense Disruption Cell.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, technical advisory, or solutions engineering roles.
- 2+ years of experience building applications with generative and agentic AI technologies, including LLMs, RAG, MCP, or multi-agent orchestration.
- Experience deploying an LLM-powered system or AI agent to production, including evaluation, monitoring, and post-launch iteration.
- Production programming experience with Python or TypeScript.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems and data sources such as ERP, CRM, ITSM, or SharePoint platforms.
- Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders to elicit requirements, map processes, and guide technology adoption.
- Knowledge of evaluation techniques including golden datasets, regression testing, and human-in-the-loop feedback.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and communicate with technical and executive audiences.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, LangGraph, or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- Preferred experience in forward-deployed, embedded, or customer-site engineering roles.
- Preferred organizational change management, training, communications, workforce transition, or user adoption experience.
- Preferred business process analysis or process mapping experience, including BPMN or value stream mapping.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
- Preferred ability to quantify automation impact through cost savings, risk mitigation, or revenue uplift.
- A Secret clearance and master's degree are preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support are offered.
- Recognition awards are available 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 benefit programs, while other employees are eligible for select offerings.
- The posting states that remote roles may require occasional work at a Booz Allen or customer facility, hybrid roles require frequent facility work and may include customer visits, and onsite roles are primarily performed at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
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).