AI Engineer Mid level
ELEVI Associates6 days ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$131k - $161k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ideate, prototype, and deliver AI-enabled solutions aligned with stakeholders and existing application environments.
- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using Next.js, TypeScript, FastAPI, Python, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch.
- Develop agentic AI solutions involving MCP, tool development, context engineering, and agent-to-agent communication.
- Use Pydantic and Zod for data validation.
- Build and maintain Docker images and deploy, configure, and troubleshoot applications in OpenShift.
- Investigate and resolve production issues across the user interface, backend services, database, and application deployment.
- Work with customers, product owners, and stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and estimate implementation effort.
- Participate in technical design and code reviews, write automated tests, and maintain technical documentation.
Requirements
- Nine years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a highly related field, with stated substitutions for a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with a CI Poly.
- Strong proficiency with at least one generative AI framework, such as LangChain, Haystack, or LlamaIndex.
- Strong proficiency in prompt engineering and prompt management.
- Experience developing agentic AI solutions, including MCP, tool development, context engineering, and agent-to-agent communication.
- Strong proficiency in React.js and TypeScript, including functional components, hooks, reusable component design, and API integration.
- Strong backend development experience with Node.js or Python and REST APIs.
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, relational data modeling, SQL, schema migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
- Hands-on Docker experience, including writing Dockerfiles, building images, and troubleshooting containers.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate customer and business needs into technical requirements.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Langfuse, LangSmith, Codex, Next.js AI SDK, FastMCP, Linux, Kubernetes, and Department of War software development.
- Preferred experience improving application security, accessibility, performance, and reliability and coordinating with product, operations, and security teams.
Benefits
- Proposed annual salary range of $130,640-$160,700.
- Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, counseling, and time-off benefits.
- Work/life support and flexibility to balance work and personal life, with employees trusted to take appropriate time off.
- Learning and development opportunities and support for expanding skills and career goals.
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About ELEVI Associates
ELEVI Associates provides IT professional services—consulting, engineering, implementation, and support—plus IT staff augmentation and value-added resale of hardware and software for U.S. federal and commercial clients. Its competencies include information systems security, software development, and Linux/Windows systems administration. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, the privately held, certified small business operates through three units: Professional Services, IT Staffing Solutions, and Technology Systems & Support.