Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton4 days ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver production-grade agentic AI systems using LLMs, autonomous workflows, prompting, RAG, evaluation pipelines, and human-in-the-loop systems.
- Architect modular and reusable AI application patterns integrating cloud-hosted, local, and hybrid model providers.
- Apply structured prompting, tool use, workflow orchestration, multimodal reasoning, and agentic patterns.
- Design deployable solutions optimized for latency, cost efficiency, observability, and safety.
- Prototype and iterate with AI-assisted development tools using evaluation-driven development and continuous experimentation.
- Select and combine prompting strategies, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and fine-tuned or foundation models.
- Create reference architectures and technical roadmaps while collaborating with cross-functional engineering, product, data, and security teams.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience designing, developing, or deploying AI-driven systems, including autonomous agents, LLM-based systems, or automated decision pipelines.
- At least 1 year of experience using an object-oriented programming language such as Python for AI and ML solution development.
- Experience integrating LLMs, GPT-class models, or multimodal models into applications, pipelines, or mission systems.
- Experience with RAG architectures, evaluation methodologies, experimentation workflows, and asynchronous or event-driven programming patterns.
- Experience collaborating with data scientists, ML engineers, SREs, product managers, and security teams.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Secret clearance is required, and applicants may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Preferred experience includes LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, custom agent frameworks, MCP, A2A, LangGraph, multi-agent patterns, model fine-tuning, prompt tuning, domain adaptation, reinforcement learning from human or AI feedback, AI evaluation suites, safety testing frameworks, and integrations with external tools, APIs, or enterprise systems.
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 benefit programs, with select offerings for employees below that threshold.
- Work arrangements may be remote, hybrid, or onsite depending on the position; remote roles may occasionally require work at a Booz Allen or customer facility, and hybrid or onsite roles require facility-based work according to role needs.
- 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).