Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Alexandria, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement intelligent agent architectures capable of reasoning, planning, tool use, and autonomous action.
- Develop and deploy multi-agent systems using MCP and A2A protocols for communication and collaborative task solving.
- Build RAG pipelines integrating unstructured data with knowledge graphs.
- Fine-tune and optimize small language models for domain-specific and edge-device deployment.
- Develop evaluation, reliability, safety, performance, and observability frameworks for agentic systems from prototype through production.
- Use ReAct loops and human-in-the-loop processes to evaluate and improve agent behavior.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software development experience.
- At least 2 years of ML engineering experience building production-grade ML solutions involving GenAI, LLMs, deep learning, reinforcement learning, AI agents, agentic workflows, or complex automation frameworks.
- At least 2 years of experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, PydanticAI, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex.
- At least 2 years of cloud experience with AWS and Azure, including architectural tradeoff evaluation and scalable service-based software design.
- Experience with MCP, A2A, RAG architecture, knowledge graphs, Neo4j, or NebulaGraph.
- Experience fine-tuning LLMs or SLMs with Hugging Face, PEFT, or LoRA and evaluating model performance and behavior.
- Experience building observation layers using tools such as Grafana, Langfuse, LangSmith, or Phoenix.
- Knowledge of modern software design patterns, microservice design, or edge computing.
- Top Secret clearance and eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree required; a master’s degree in computer science or AI is preferred, and a doctorate in computer science or statistics is a plus.
- Preferred experience includes production agent deployment, edge-device or local-model deployment, coding agents such as Cursor or Windsurf, TensorFlow, PyTorch, llama.cpp, vLLM, on-premise or multi-classification environments, and client-facing project or business development work.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Alexandria, Virginia, or Annapolis Junction, Maryland, with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and other total-well-being programs.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with limited offerings 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).