Junior Software Engineer

About the role

Visionist is seeking a Junior Software Engineer for a fully funded opportunity on a prime contract. The role involves developing agent-based integrations, building tools and workflows, collaborating with stakeholders, and maintaining a production-grade agentic platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop agent-based integrations in Python that leverage multiple AI models, APIs, and data sources in production environments
• Build tools and agent workflows using modern frameworks such as PydanticAI, LangGraph, and DeepAgents
• Collaborate directly with stakeholders and cyber analysts to understand operational workflows and identify high-impact automation opportunities
• Design and implement real-time analytics pipelines in Python using Apache Kafka for stream processing and Elasticsearch for indexing and search
• Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot a production-grade agentic platform to ensure reliability and performance

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
• (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
• 3 years of experience in software development
• Strong software development experience with advanced proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications supporting hundreds to thousands of users
• Understanding of modern AI development concepts, including prompt engineering, context management, structured outputs, and tool/function calling
• Experience building scalable, resilient stream processing systems using event-driven and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and automation

Qualifications

• Passionate about utilizing a diverse tech stack
• Thrives in a collaborative work environment

Skills

• Python
• Modern AI development concepts
• Event-driven and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka)
• AI coding assistants

Benefits

• Competitive 15% retirement contribution
• 4 weeks paid time off
• 12 paid holidays
• Comp time
• Overtime
• Flexible work hours
• Medical, dental, & vision benefits
• Annual lifestyle bonus
• Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
• Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability

Pay

Salary range: $115,000 - $160,000

Schedule

Flexible work hours