AI Senior Software Engineer
Soft Tech Consulting2 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize agentic AI systems using LangGraph, CrewAI, Google ADK, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, and related orchestration frameworks.
- Implement multi-step, tool-enabled AI workflows combining LLM reasoning, RAG, retrieval systems, external APIs, and enterprise tools.
- Use Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, and Amazon Bedrock to develop structured generation, extraction, summarization, planning, and decision-support capabilities.
- Tune AI workflows through prompt engineering, instruction design, agent configuration, and tool-use optimization.
- Conduct regression testing, scenario-based evaluations, synthetic test creation, and model-to-model comparisons.
- Diagnose hallucinations, retrieval mismatches, tool-use errors, and unexpected agent behavior, and 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 software engineering, data science, solution architecture, cybersecurity, governance, and product teams.
Requirements
- Top Secret clearance and United States citizenship are required.
- Bachelor's degree is required.
- 7–10 years of related experience is required.
- Advanced experience tuning, evaluating, and validating AI workflows, including prompts, agent configurations, tool-calling patterns, and retrieval strategies.
- Experience designing structured AI behavior tests, including regression, scenario-based, synthetic, and model-comparison testing.
- Experience diagnosing AI failures and implementing guardrails or workflow adjustments.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with data modeling and AWS Bedrock services.
- Experience with AI agents and workflow integration, AI prompting, AWS AI services, AI architecture, and Python software development.
- Comfort with Git-based development workflows, CI/CD, and observability integrations for logging, metrics, and traces.
- Strong written and verbal communication, independent work ability, and client relationship skills.
- A master's degree in Computer Science is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k).
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- 100% onsite work in Washington, DC.
- No third-party vendors; Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.
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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.