AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton2 months ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI/ML systems and agentic applications end to end.
- Develop multi-agent systems, APIs, services, RAG pipelines, and scalable cloud-native solutions.
- Implement model and application evaluation, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and other observability capabilities.
- Optimize latency, caching, retrieval, and overall system performance.
- Deploy models, agents, and applications through CI/CD processes.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate complex development tasks.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building production systems and applications, including AI/ML applications.
- At least 2 years of experience developing generative AI applications using LLMs, RAG frameworks, and vector stores.
- Experience developing APIs and services with FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and cloud services including Bedrock/AI Foundry, SageMaker/AI Studio, EKS/ECS, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph and Strands, including tool or function calling patterns.
- Experience implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or CloudWatch and building performance metrics dashboards.
- Experience using Copilot, Codex, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted coding tools for complex development tasks.
- Experience deploying models, agents, or applications via CI/CD.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM field.
- Preferred: experience supporting Department of War or other federal mission environments, advanced agentic patterns, chatbot or agent-to-agent development, Databricks or Snowflake, and large data processing pipelines.
- Preferred: master’s degree.
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 are eligible for the applicable benefits programs.
- The role may be remote, hybrid, or onsite depending on the listing, with possible work at Booz Allen or customer facilities; virtual employees are generally expected to use cameras during meetings.
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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).