AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI and ML systems at scale.
- Own the full lifecycle of agentic applications and ML solutions, including data pipelines, model development, evaluation, observability, and performance optimization.
- Build and deploy multi-agent systems and other AI applications in cloud environments.
- Design and evaluate RAG pipelines and apply traditional machine learning where appropriate.
- Develop APIs and services using FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js.
- Implement tracing, metrics, dashboards, caching, retrieval optimization, and latency improvements.
- Deploy models, agents, and applications through CI/CD workflows.
- 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 with FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js for API and service development.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and cloud services such as Bedrock, AI Foundry, SageMaker, AI Studio, EKS, ECS, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph and Strands, and with tool or function calling patterns.
- Experience implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or CloudWatch and creating performance metrics dashboards.
- Experience with Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code for complex development tasks.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM field.
- Preferred experience supporting Department of War clients or other federal mission environments.
- Preferred experience with prompt caching, guardrails, agentic memory, Model Context Protocol, agentic deployment strategies, chatbot development, agent-to-agent development, Databricks, Snowflake, and large data processing pipelines.
- A master's degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Washington, DC, with frequent work at a Booz Allen facility and possible work at or visits to customer facilities.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and other total well-being programs.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with some offerings limited for others.
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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).