Principal Agentic AI Full Stack Software Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology4 days ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$143k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop clean, maintainable, and efficient Python code.
- Design and implement AI-enabled web applications and analytics using Streamlit, React, or similar technologies.
- Integrate LLM capabilities, prompting, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, and related agentic AI patterns.
- Design, develop, and integrate APIs, including FastAPI-based services.
- Build and maintain user interfaces for AI, data, and analytics capabilities.
- Establish CI/CD pipelines and container-based deployments using Docker.
- Work with PostgreSQL and MySQL to maintain data integrity, performance, and efficiency.
- Use Git-based version control and collaborate across the software development lifecycle.
- Prototype, build, test, deploy, and sustain mission-focused AI and data analytics features.
Requirements
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Current TS/SCI clearance with an active or obtainable CI polygraph.
- US citizenship is required due to government contract requirements.
- Proficiency in Python, full-stack development, web technologies, containerization, APIs, user interface development, Docker, Git, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Experience building AI-enabled web applications, analytics dashboards, or user workflows using Streamlit or similar technologies.
- Experience designing and maintaining scalable backend solutions using Python frameworks.
- Preferred experience includes React, LLM-powered agentic workflows, tool calling, structured outputs, task planning, multi-step execution, state management, REST API integration, AI or machine learning applications, cloud-native development, DevSecOps, reliable AI workflow controls, and MLOps.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts.
- 401(k) plan with company match and pre-tax and post-tax contribution options.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance offerings.
- Career growth support, internal mobility assistance, wellness packages, and a military-friendly workplace.
- Onsite work in Crystal City/Arlington, Virginia, with optional CONUS travel of 10–25%; scheduled for 40 hours per week.
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About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.