Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton2 days 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 action.
- Develop 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 SLMs and LLMs for domain-specific and edge-device deployment.
- Develop evaluation frameworks and observability layers for agent reliability, safety, performance, and stakeholder review.
- Move agentic AI prototypes into production using human-in-the-loop processes and ReAct loops.
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 a bachelor’s degree are required.
- Preferred qualifications include production agent deployment, edge or local-model deployment, coding-agent integrations with Cursor or Windsurf, TensorFlow, PyTorch, llama.cpp, vLLM, on-premise or multi-classification AI environments, client-facing project work, and business development.
- A master’s degree in computer science or AI is preferred; a doctorate in computer science or statistics is a plus.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in Booz Allen benefit programs.
- The projected annualized salary range is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 USD.
- The posting will close within 90 days from the posting date.
- Work may be remote, hybrid, or onsite depending on the position listing, 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).