Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton3 days ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems using generative AI, LLMs, autonomous workflows, and human-in-the-loop processes.
- Architect modular and reusable AI application patterns across cloud-hosted, local, hybrid, and portable deployments.
- Integrate model providers and apply structured prompting, tool use, workflow orchestration, multimodal reasoning, and RAG.
- Optimize AI systems for latency, cost efficiency, observability, and safety.
- Prototype and iterate with AI-assisted development tools using evaluation-driven development and continuous experimentation.
- Define technical direction for agentic systems by selecting prompting strategies, RAG architectures, agent workflows, and foundation or fine-tuned models.
- Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, SREs, product managers, security teams, solutions architects, and product owners.
- Create reference architectures and technical roadmaps.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience designing, developing, or deploying AI-driven systems such as autonomous agents, LLM-based systems, or automated decision pipelines.
- At least 1 year of experience with an object-oriented programming language such as Python applied to AI and ML solution development.
- Experience integrating LLMs, GPT-class models, or multimodal models into applications, pipelines, or mission systems.
- Experience with RAG architectures, evaluation methodologies, experimentation workflows, and asynchronous or event-driven programming patterns.
- Experience working in cross-functional delivery environments and creating reference architectures and technical roadmaps.
- Secret clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Preferred experience with LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, custom agent frameworks, MCP, A2A, LangGraph, multi-agent patterns, model fine-tuning, prompt tuning, domain adaptation, reinforcement learning from human or AI feedback, AI evaluation suites, safety testing frameworks, tool-calling, computer-use patterns, and enterprise integrations.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select offerings available below that threshold.
- Hybrid work in McLean, Virginia, with expected work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- Full-time and part-time employment options are referenced in the benefits eligibility policy.
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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).