Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton22 days ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents that autonomously use tools, interact with software systems, and execute multi-step tasks.
- Develop agent architectures covering decision-making logic, memory systems, orchestration flows, structured interfaces, and tool routing.
- Integrate tools, APIs, external services, and cloud AI platforms into AI-driven systems.
- Implement inference request flows that address latency, token limits, and batching strategies.
- Develop evaluation, observability, and monitoring approaches to keep agent behavior predictable, reliable, and safe.
- Write integration tests for multi-service and multi-component systems.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver scalable, production-ready agentic systems for distributed environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing software systems in Python.
- Experience creating AI agents or multi-step LLM workflows with 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 request flows, including latency, token-limit, and batching considerations.
- Experience writing integration tests for multi-service or multi-component systems.
- Knowledge of containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed system patterns such as asynchronous task handling, message routing, or service-based architectures.
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science.
- Preferred experience with multi-agent workflow coordination, state machines, planners, decision graphs, agent memory architectures, evaluation and observability solutions, resilience patterns, Docker, Kubernetes, or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Preferred experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Redis, Postgres, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, or Microsoft Foundry Agent Service.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in benefit programs; others may receive select offerings.
- The work model may be remote, hybrid, or onsite depending on the posting and role requirements, with possible work at Booz Allen or customer facilities and camera use generally expected during virtual meetings.
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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).