Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton2 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain AI agents capable of autonomously executing multi-step workflows and interacting with mission systems.
- Develop agent architectures, decision-making logic, memory systems, and orchestration frameworks.
- Implement inference request flows, tool and API integrations, evaluation, monitoring, observability, governance, and reliability approaches.
- Collaborate with cyber operators, analysts, systems engineers, and capability developers to deliver scalable production-ready agentic solutions.
- Apply AI, machine learning, and software engineering technologies to cyber operations and national security challenges.
- Write integration tests for multi-service and multi-component systems.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience designing and implementing software systems in Python.
- Experience creating AI agents or multi-step LLM workflows, including agent behavior, sequencing, or state-transition logic.
- Experience integrating tools, APIs, or external services into AI-driven or workflow-oriented systems.
- Experience building or maintaining session state, long-term persistence, or vector-based retrieval memory systems.
- Experience implementing inference flows that address latency, token limits, and batching strategies.
- Knowledge of containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed system patterns.
- Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science.
- Preferred experience includes multi-agent workflows, state machines, planners, decision graphs, agent memory architectures, evaluation and observability, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Redis, PostgreSQL, cloud AI platforms, resilience patterns, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with expected work at a Booz Allen or customer facility based on leadership expectations and role needs.
- Benefits include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement programs, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards.
- 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 available below that threshold.
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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).