Forward Deployment Agentic Engineer
Guidehouse · San Antonio, TX · 2 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$70k–$116k/yrFull-time
Job Family: Business Systems Analysis | Travel: Up to 10% | Clearance: Ability to Obtain Public Trust
Responsibilities
- Solution Delivery: Build and support agentic AI solutions using Claude, API integrations, and modern application development practices.
- Translate business and workflow needs into practical technical designs and working prototypes including Custom Skills.
- Develop reliable agent workflows that use tools, structured outputs, retrieval, and human review where appropriate.
- Contribute to the design of solution patterns that balance usability, performance, maintainability, and safety.
- Engineering and Integration: Build and maintain integrations with internal and external systems through APIs, services, and data pipelines.
- Support read-oriented and low-risk workflow integrations with common business systems and internal applications.
- Work with relational databases and related data storage patterns to support application state, retrieval, and auditability.
Requirements
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding.
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Four (4) or more years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical role.
- TWO (2) years of recent, hands-on experience building GenAI, LLM, or agentic solutions.
- Experience with Claude API, Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, tool use, or similar LLM platforms.
- Experience building and integrating applications through APIs, services, or workflow automation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Anthropic Academy coursework or certificates in areas such as AI Fluency, API development, Model Context Protocol, Claude Code, or related Claude platform topics.
- Experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Anthropic partner training or certification experience, or equivalent Claude-focused credentialing.
- Working knowledge of relational databases and basic data modeling concepts.
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, or vector search.
- Familiarity with agentic workflow patterns, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop designs.
- Exposure to evaluation practices for AI systems, including testing, validation, and quality review.
- Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and observability for application services.
- Experience supporting internal platforms, client implementations, or enterprise software delivery.
- Strong interest in building practical AI solutions that are useful, trusted, and easy to maintain.
Pay
The annual salary range for this position is $70,000.00‑$116,000.00.
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short‑Term & Long‑Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus