Senior Software Engineer
Belay Technologies2 days ago
Fort Meade, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$190k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead forward-deployed engagements with operations customers from requirements elicitation through production delivery.
- Architect and build Python agentic systems connecting LLMs, MCP servers, Skills, subagents, mission data sources, and operational tools.
- Design autonomous-agent guardrails including scoped permissions, human approval gates, and audit logging.
- Build evaluation suites with mission users to measure AI accuracy, reliability, and failure modes.
- Evaluate models, frameworks, and AI design patterns and brief findings and tradeoffs to technical and government leadership.
- Use AI coding agents in daily development and help define standards for reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated code.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing while leading technical design discussions.
- Communicate project progress, risks, and tradeoffs to project leads and government stakeholders.
Requirements
- 12 years of experience and TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or four additional years of experience in place of the degree.
- Extensive professional software engineering experience with advanced Python proficiency, including production services, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Experience building LLM applications or agentic systems using tool or function calling, structured outputs, context management, and multi-step workflows.
- Experience working directly with end users or mission customers to convert ambiguous operational problems into delivered software.
- Experience designing tests, evaluations, or validation layers for AI or other non-deterministic systems.
- Experience using AI coding assistants or agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot with the ability to review and explain generated output.
- Technical leadership experience, including technical leadership, design decision ownership, or mentoring engineers.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and Atlassian tools; GitLab is preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience with MCP, Skills, subagents, PydanticAI, LangGraph, LLM application security, retrieval systems, RAG, vector databases, Elasticsearch, autonomous development pipelines, forward-deployed engineering, CNO capabilities, or SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
Benefits
- 8 weeks of paid leave, including personal leave, Yay! days, a birthday day off, 11 paid holidays, and optional volunteer-program leave.
- 10% matching 401(k) contributions vested on day one.
- $5,000 annual training and tuition benefit.
- Student Loan Repayment Program.
- 100% company-funded HSA and rich medical coverage with 100% coinsurance.
- Dental coverage including orthodontia.
- Up to $420,000 in company-funded life insurance coverage.
- Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games, prizes, pet adoption assistance, referral bonuses, and company events.
- Flexible work-life balance and career development opportunities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Belay Technologies
BELAY provides managed, U.S.-based virtual staffing for small and midsize organizations, including executive assistants, bookkeeping, and marketing support. Clients engage fractional, remote professionals through a subscription-like, managed-service model with personalized matching and flexible scope. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the privately held company focuses on operational support that frees leaders from scheduling, inbox, financial reporting, and other administrative workloads.