AI/ML Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Chantilly, VA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Capture mission-user workflows and translate them into process maps, automation requirements, or executable logic.
- Design and implement LLM-powered workflows, agent-based automation, and hybrid AI solutions.
- Build multi-step reasoning, tool integrations, and orchestration for agentic workflows.
- Integrate AI systems with APIs, enterprise data stores, and mission platforms.
- Collaborate with operators, analysts, developers, and mission leadership to integrate solutions with existing systems.
- Ensure AI capabilities perform reliably in production and comply with classified-environment security and governance expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, a master’s degree and 3+ years of relevant experience, or 10+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Relevant experience must be in AI/ML engineering, data science, or software engineering within cyber, intelligence, or national security environments.
- Experience capturing user workflows and translating them into structured process maps, automation requirements, or executable logic.
- Experience designing or implementing LLM-based or agentic workflows with multi-step reasoning, tool integrations, and orchestration.
- Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, enterprise data stores, or mission platforms.
- Experience with programming languages such as Python.
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
- Preferred experience includes AI engineering in on-premise or multi-classification environments; PyTorch, TensorFlow, vLLM, or llama.cpp; AWS or Azure; LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or CrewAI; and cyber or intelligence workflows.
- A master’s degree in AI, ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or Engineering is preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Chantilly, Virginia; work is primarily performed at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Benefits include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement programs, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week may participate in Booz Allen benefit programs.
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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).