Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Alexandria, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement autonomous agent architectures that reason, plan, and take actions.
- Develop and deploy multi-agent systems using MCP and A2A protocols for tool use and collaboration.
- Build RAG pipelines that integrate unstructured data with knowledge graphs.
- Fine-tune and optimize SLMs for edge-device performance using ONNX, GGML, or Ollama.
- Develop evaluation frameworks for agent reliability, safety, and performance, including ReAct loops and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Deploy agentic systems from prototype to production and develop observation layers for stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software development experience.
- At least 2 years of ML engineering experience building production-grade ML solutions involving GenAI, LLMs, deep learning, reinforcement learning, AI agents, agentic workflows, or complex automation frameworks.
- At least 2 years of experience with LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, PydanticAI, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex.
- At least 2 years of cloud experience with AWS and Azure, including architectural tradeoff evaluation and scalable service-based software design.
- Experience with MCP, A2A, RAG architecture, and knowledge graphs, including Neo4j or NebulaGraph.
- Experience fine-tuning LLMs or SLMs with Hugging Face, PEFT, or LoRA and evaluating LLM performance and behavior.
- Experience building observation layers using Grafana, Langfuse, LangSmith, or Phoenix.
- Knowledge of modern software design patterns, including microservice design or edge computing.
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
- Bachelor's degree is required.
- Preferred qualifications include production agent deployment, edge-device or local-model deployment, coding-agent integration, TensorFlow, PyTorch, llama.cpp, vLLM, on-premise or multi-classification AI environments, client-facing project work, and business development.
- A master's degree in computer science or AI is preferred, and a doctorate in computer science or statistics is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with frequent work at a Booz Allen facility and possible customer-facility visits.
- 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 qualifying full-time and part-time employees.
- Identity verification using biometrics is part of the hiring process, and candidates are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments.
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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).