AI Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$129k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy applications incorporating AI, automation, and modern cloud technologies.
- Own features and capabilities end to end, from requirements clarification and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Design and develop APIs, services, integrations, and event-driven applications.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, mission partners, and stakeholders to turn concepts into working systems.
- Establish sound development practices, reusable technical patterns, and reference implementations.
- Lead through ambiguity, make technical decisions independently, and communicate those decisions clearly.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying production software applications.
- Experience with Python and at least one of Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java.
- Experience building production AI applications with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock Agents, or CrewAI.
- Experience with Git, code reviews, automated testing, debugging, documentation, dependency management, and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
- Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker or Kubernetes.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Preferred experience with tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, workflow orchestration, agent evaluation, emerging AI protocols, cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, databases, observability, regulated environments, mentoring, and application or cloud security.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in eligible benefit programs.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSAzureDockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle CloudJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript
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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).