812242 Software Engineer $190,000.00

About the role

Labor Category: Software Engineer. Position Title: AI/ML Engineers. Position Level: Level 3 – Senior. Location: McLean, VA. Requires Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain AI/ML-enabled applications with a focus on agent-based workflows, LLM integration, RAG capabilities, and production-ready application functionality.
• Design and support agent-based application architectures, including orchestration logic, tool use, memory management, context handling, and integration with external tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
• Implement and maintain RAG pipelines, including document processing, embedding generation, retrieval configuration, prompt assembly, response optimization, and retrieval-based memory patterns.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs, Python-based services, backend components, user-facing features, and data workflows to support AI/ML applications, system integration, and enterprise deployment.
• Process, organize, and model structured and unstructured data; refine Postgres schemas; benchmark model performance using MLflow or similar tools; and optimize applications for performance, reliability, latency, usability, maintainability, and scalability.

Requirements

Mandatory experience levels: Developmental (0‑2 years), Full Performance (3‑5 years), Senior (6‑10 years), Expert (11‑15 years), SME (16+ years).

• Experience developing AI/ML-enabled applications with a focus on LLM integration, agent‑based workflows, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), or similar retrieval‑based capabilities.
• Proficiency with Python, common data/AI libraries, AI frameworks, and tool‑based LLM application development, including orchestration logic, tool use, memory/context management, and integration with external systems.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML foundational concepts, including transformers, algorithms, LLM behavior, data processing, and model integration patterns.
• Experience designing, developing, or integrating REST APIs, particularly Python‑based services, and working with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
• Familiarity with production‑ready application development practices, including reliability, maintainability, testing, usability, deployment, and performance optimization.
• Accepting the following levels: Senior – typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with a minimum of 6 years of related work experience.

Optional Requirements

• Experience with MCP or similar protocols for connecting AI agents to tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
• Experience developing full‑stack AI or agent‑based applications, including frontend interfaces, backend services, orchestration layers, and enterprise deployment patterns.
• Experience with Python REST API frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask, Docker containers, containerized development environments, and AWS or other cloud environments.
• Experience implementing or optimizing LLM memory management, agent orchestration, prompt/tool workflows, latency reduction, context window management, observability, evaluation, and cost/performance tuning.
• Experience with MLflow or similar tools, vector databases, embedding models, semantic search, retrieval configuration, structured/unstructured data transformation, and Postgres schema refinement.

Benefits

• Outstanding salaries.
• Retirement: Full Vanguard 401k Plan – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of salary; ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50).
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2‑year vesting period).
• Insurance: Medical – United Health Care (multiple plan options); Dental – United Concordia Flex Plan; Vision – Vision Service Plan.
• Mutual of Omaha short‑term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000/week).
• Mutual of Omaha long‑term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000/month).
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000).
• Employee Referral Bonus: $3,000 per year for each referred employee.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Seven weeks of leave per year