Agentic AI Developer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Austin, TX, USA or San Antonio, TX, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain AI agents and supporting applications using Agent Foundry and AWS.
- Connect agents to enterprise data and tools and implement retrieval, tool calling, context management, and workflow orchestration.
- Develop production-grade Python back-end applications, APIs, and data services.
- Evaluate AI/ML application performance using test datasets, metrics, error analysis, and user feedback, then implement improvements.
- Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, automated testing, troubleshooting, and feature delivery.
- Implement secure controls including least-privilege access, secrets management, input and output validation, traceable outputs, and human oversight.
- Translate defense mission use cases into implemented and tested software and communicate designs, results, and limitations to engineering and domain teams.
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, data and cloud engineers, solutions architects, platform developers, and subject matter experts.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience developing production-grade Python software, including back-end applications, APIs, or data services.
- At least 2 years of experience developing, integrating, or deploying AI/ML-enabled applications using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic workflows.
- Experience with Git-based version control, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Experience evaluating AI/ML applications with test datasets, performance metrics, error analysis, or documented user feedback.
- Knowledge of LLM and agent development patterns, including tool or function calling, context management, retrieval, workflow orchestration, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Knowledge of AWS fundamentals, secure development, IAM, compute, storage, networking, and managed AI/ML services.
- Ability to translate mission use cases into tested software features and communicate technical designs and limitations.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, or engineering plus 5 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree in one of those fields plus 2 years of relevant experience.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Preferred experience includes AWS AI services, agent orchestration, knowledge retrieval, production data pipelines, DevOps or MLOps, computer vision, multimodal or geospatial systems, AWS GovCloud or regulated environments, and security controls for models and agentic applications.
- Preferred qualifications include relevant AWS certifications and CompTIA Security+ certification.
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.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select benefits available below that threshold.
- The work model may be remote, hybrid, or onsite depending on the posting; remote employees may occasionally work at Booz Allen or customer facilities, while hybrid employees are expected to work frequently from a Booz Allen facility and may visit customer facilities.
- Applicants selected will undergo a security investigation and may need eligibility for classified information access.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowApache SparkAWSDatabricksDockerGitGitHub ActionsKubernetesOpenCVPythonPyTorchSQLTensorFlowTerraform
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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).