AI Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Base Salary
$129k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and operationally support applications incorporating AI, automation, and cloud technologies.
- Own multiple software features and capabilities end to end, from requirements clarification and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
- Build APIs, services, integrations, event-driven applications, and production AI applications using agentic frameworks.
- Translate incomplete or evolving requirements into practical technical solutions and communicate technical decisions clearly.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, mission partners, and stakeholders to deliver working systems.
- Help establish development practices, reusable technical patterns, and reference implementations while mentoring developers and leading technical discussions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying production software applications.
- Experience with Python and at least one of Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java.
- Experience building production AI applications with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock Agents, or CrewAI.
- Experience with APIs, services, integrations, event-driven applications, automated testing, debugging, documentation, dependency management, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience developing and deploying containerized applications in cloud environments using Docker or Kubernetes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- Preferred experience includes AI application patterns such as tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, workflow orchestration, and agent evaluation.
- Preferred experience includes Model Context Protocol, Agent-to-Agent technologies, enterprise cloud platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, databases, caching, message queues, streaming, observability, regulated environments, and application or cloud security.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are available.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for the company’s benefit programs, with select offerings for employees below that threshold.
- Applicants selected may need to undergo a government investigation and meet U.S. government client eligibility requirements.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSAzureDockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle CloudJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript
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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).