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Base Salary
$146k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build integrations between agents and external APIs, data feeds, partner systems, enterprise systems, document repositories, and databases.
- Package integrations as agent-callable tools with reliable interfaces, predictable inputs and outputs, error handling, and documentation.
- Own authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retries, schema mapping, deduplication, caching, and other production data concerns.
- Build orchestration for multi-step agent workflows, including tool routing, parallel execution, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
- Contribute across FastAPI/Python backends, React interfaces, PostgreSQL schemas, and containerized deployments.
- Instrument systems with traces, metrics, evaluations, and regression tests for nondeterministic agent behavior.
- Partner with platform, security, and mission engineers to move capabilities into production within federal compliance boundaries.
Requirements
- BS degree with 8 years of professional experience, an associate degree with 10 years, an MS degree with 6 years, or a high school diploma/equivalent with 10 years and meaningful AI/ML or LLM product exposure.
- Hands-on experience building AI agents and integrating LLMs into production or near-production applications.
- Experience designing external data integrations and packaging capabilities as agent tools or skills.
- Strong Python skills, including Python 3.12+, async/await, type hints, and modern tooling.
- Experience across FastAPI/Python, React, Docker, PostgreSQL, and REST, GraphQL, or comparable web APIs.
- Experience with workflow or task orchestration systems such as Airflow, Prefect, or Celery, or comparable agent orchestration patterns.
- Experience with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock and familiarity with agentic frameworks and tool-calling concepts.
- Knowledge of security concerns including secrets management, OAuth, API keys, defensive parsing, and prompt-injection awareness.
- Product mindset and comfort working with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred qualifications include RAG systems, knowledge graphs, document stores, agent evaluation, plugin systems, federal compliance environments, observability tooling, Kubernetes, distributed storage, and government or enterprise platform experience.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.