AI Software Engineer, Senior
Booz Allen Hamilton3 months ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production AI applications integrating foundation models, retrieval systems, external tools, and enterprise data.
- Architect reusable components for prompting, retrieval, orchestration, tool execution, memory, and evaluation.
- Build data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, indexing, and refreshing structured and unstructured data.
- Create automated and human evaluation frameworks to measure correctness, robustness, safety, and mission outcomes.
- Optimize AI applications for latency, reliability, scalability, operational cost, and safety.
- Apply asynchronous programming and event-driven design patterns to distributed and long-running AI workflows.
- Implement observability, monitoring, guardrails, access controls, responsible AI practices, automated testing, and safe rollout processes.
- Deploy AI services securely on AWS or equivalent cloud platforms using cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Collaborate with clients, data engineers, data scientists, solution architects, and product owners to prototype and productionize AI solutions.
- Present technical solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of professional experience developing AI or machine learning solutions.
- Experience building production AI applications using programming languages such as Python.
- Experience designing and implementing generative AI applications using large language models.
- Experience building RAG solutions and integrating AI systems with enterprise data.
- Experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain.
- Experience integrating AI applications with external tools, APIs, or enterprise systems and evaluating application quality through testing, experimentation, or benchmarking.
- Experience deploying cloud-native applications using platforms such as AWS.
- Secret clearance is required, or the ability to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology field.
- Preferred experience includes autonomous or agentic workflows, multimodal AI, evaluation or safety frameworks, portable or offline-capable deployments, AI user interfaces, client-facing technical delivery, and AI-assisted development tools.
- A master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field is preferred.
- Applicants must complete the required skills assessment and meet the minimum proficiency threshold.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care support are available.
- Recognition awards acknowledge exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for the company’s benefit programs, with employees below that threshold eligible only for select offerings.
- Virtual employees may be required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility on occasion, and hybrid or onsite work may require frequent or primary work at company or customer facilities.
- The posting is expected to close within 90 days of the posting date.
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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).