AI Mid Software Engineer
Soft Tech Consulting2 months ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$120k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize agentic AI systems with LangGraph, CrewAI, Google ADK, or AWS Bedrock AgentCore.
- Implement multi-step, tool-enabled workflows integrating LLM reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, external APIs, and enterprise tools.
- Use foundation models on Amazon Bedrock for structured generation, extraction, summarization, planning, and decision support.
- Tune prompts, agent configurations, instructions, retrieval strategies, and tool-use behavior.
- Conduct regression tests, scenario-based evaluations, synthetic testing, and model comparisons.
- Diagnose hallucinations, retrieval mismatches, tool-use errors, and unexpected agent behavior, then implement guardrails and workflow corrections.
- Integrate AI components with vector databases, graph databases, internal applications, and infrastructure tools.
- Document model usage, agent behavior, experiments, workflow designs, and best practices.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity and governance teams to meet AI policies and safe-use requirements.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.
- Bachelor's degree is required, or nine years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
- At least five years of related experience is required.
- Experience tuning, evaluating, and validating AI workflows, including prompts, agent configurations, tool calling, and retrieval strategies.
- Experience designing structured AI behavior tests and diagnosing failures such as hallucinations, retrieval issues, and tool-use errors.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with AWS Bedrock services are required.
- Familiarity with JavaScript or other programming languages is beneficial.
- Experience with data modeling, AI agents and workflow integration, AI prompting, Python software development, AWS AI services, and AI architecture.
- Experience with observability tools, including logging, metrics, and traces, is required.
- Comfort with CI/CD and Git-based development workflows.
- Strong written and verbal communication, independent work ability, and client relationship skills.
- A master's degree in computer science is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, paid time off, and paid holidays are offered.
- The role is 100% onsite in Washington, DC.
- No third-party vendors are accepted.
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About Soft Tech Consulting
Soft Tech Consulting is a privately held, woman- and minority-owned IT services firm headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, founded in 1996. It delivers consulting and managed solutions spanning software development, ServiceNow, network infrastructure, healthcare IT, and national security support to government and commercial clients, largely in the Washington, DC area. The company works primarily on contract engagements across the public sector, including mission-critical systems support.