AI Software Engineer, Senior
Booz Allen Hamilton10 hours 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 RAG, embedding, long-context reasoning, structured-output, and agentic workflow capabilities.
- Develop pipelines for ingesting, transforming, indexing, and refreshing structured and unstructured data.
- Implement automated and human evaluation frameworks for correctness, robustness, safety, and mission outcomes.
- Optimize AI applications for latency, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost.
- Deploy secure AI services using AWS or equivalent cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless, and other cloud-native patterns.
- Apply asynchronous and event-driven design, automated testing, CI/CD, versioning, and safe rollout practices.
- Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, prototype solutions, and transition successful concepts into production.
- 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 retrieval-augmented generation 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.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology field.
- Preferred qualifications include autonomous or agentic workflows, multimodal AI, evaluation or safety frameworks, portable or offline-capable AI, AI user interfaces, client-facing technical delivery, AI-assisted development tools, and a master's degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are available.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with some offerings subject to eligibility thresholds.
- The position is onsite in Honolulu, Hawaii, and may require work at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Candidates must complete a required skills assessment and may need to complete identity verification using biometrics and camera-based interviews or assessments.
Tech Stack
Categories
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).