Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with client teams to document workflows, systems, data flows, decision points, and exception paths.
- Create operating maps and automation roadmaps that prioritize workflows by value and risk.
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents across existing tools, APIs, enterprise systems, and data sources.
- Develop evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, regression tests, and human-in-the-loop feedback processes.
- Instrument agents with audit trails, monitoring, and metrics, and scale them from shadow mode to production.
- Lead adoption and change management through workforce training, role redesign, and user enablement.
- Codify engagement learnings into playbooks, reusable components, and shared capabilities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, technical advising, or solutions engineering.
- 4+ years of experience building applications with generative and agentic AI technologies such as LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, or multi-agent orchestration.
- Experience deploying LLM-powered systems or AI agents to production, including evaluation, monitoring, and post-launch iteration.
- Experience developing production code in Python or TypeScript.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems and data sources such as ERP, CRM, ITSM, or knowledge repositories.
- Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders to elicit requirements, map processes, and guide technology adoption.
- Knowledge of evaluation techniques for non-deterministic systems, including golden datasets, regression testing, and human-in-the-loop feedback.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Secret clearance is required.
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- Preferred qualifications include Department of War or Department of the Army experience, agent orchestration experience, forward-deployed engineering experience, organizational change management experience, BPMN or value-stream mapping experience, cloud and containerized deployment experience, automation-impact measurement, a master’s degree, and Agile or cloud certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care benefits.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Benefits eligibility generally applies to full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis.
- The role allows travel up to 10% of the time; remote roles may require occasional work at Booz Allen or customer facilities, while hybrid and onsite roles require facility or customer-site work according to role needs.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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).