Agentic AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton3 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver production-grade agentic AI and LLM-based systems.
- Architect reusable AI application patterns using prompting, RAG, agentic orchestration, tool use, workflow orchestration, and multimodal reasoning.
- Integrate cloud-hosted, local, and hybrid model providers and optimize solutions for latency, cost efficiency, observability, and safety.
- Prototype and iterate through evaluation-driven development, experimentation, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Define technical direction for mission-critical agentic systems, including model, prompting, RAG, workflow, and evaluation choices.
- Create reference architectures and technical roadmaps while collaborating with cross-functional engineering, product, security, and architecture teams.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience designing, developing, or deploying AI-driven systems such as autonomous agents, LLM-based systems, or automated decision pipelines.
- At least 1 year of experience with an object-oriented programming language such as Python applied to 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.
- Secret clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- 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, evaluation suites, safety testing, tool calling, computer use, and enterprise integrations.
Benefits
- Benefits include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement programs; paid leave; professional development; tuition assistance; work-life programs; dependent care; and recognition awards.
- Full-time and part-time employees regularly working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for the applicable Booz Allen benefit programs, while employees below that threshold receive select offerings.
- Virtual employees are generally expected to keep cameras on during meetings, and remote roles may occasionally require work at a Booz Allen or customer facility; hybrid and onsite arrangements require facility-based work according to role needs.
- Use of AI tools during interviews and assessments is prohibited unless explicitly permitted.
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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).