Senior Principal AI Full Stack Software Engineer

About the role

Your impact: Work with the largest government agency in the nation to advance the Department of War's mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical integration of modern AI and large language model capabilities into existing applications and workflows, including prompting, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and related patterns.
• Develop clean, maintainable, and efficient Python code while adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of AI-enabled web applications and analytics using Streamlit, React, or similar technologies.
• Design, develop, and integrate APIs, including FastAPI-based services, to enable seamless communication between systems.
• Integrate and maintain user interfaces that make complex AI, data, and analytics capabilities accessible to end users.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines and container-based deployments using tools such as Docker to support repeatable builds and reliable releases.
• Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL to ensure data integrity, performance, and efficiency.
• Implement and maintain version control using Git to streamline collaboration and code management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, develop, test, and deliver new features.
• Ensure all developed solutions meet high standards for security, quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to all stages of the software development life cycle, from concept and design through testing, deployment, and sustainment.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient Python code.
• Experience building and integrating AI-enabled web applications, analytic dashboards, or user workflows using Streamlit or similar technologies.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies, containerization, RESTful APIs, and user interface development.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable backend solutions using Python frameworks.
• Familiarity with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Proficiency with Docker; Kubernetes experience is a plus.
• Proficiency with Git-based version control and collaborative software development workflows.
• Hands-on experience with full stack development and a strong understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience developing modern front-end applications using React.
• Hands-on experience designing or developing LLM-powered agentic workflows that use tool calling, structured outputs, task planning, and multi-step execution.
• Familiarity with component-based UI development, state management, and reusable front-end design patterns.
• Experience integrating React-based frontends with RESTful APIs or Python-based backend services.
• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, data analytics, or mission-focused software applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-native application development, DevSecOps practices, or secure software delivery environments.
• Experience implementing reliable AI workflows with validation, error handling, retries, logging, and fallback strategies.
• Understanding of MLOps concepts, including model registry/versioning, reproducible environments, and CI/CD for ML-enabled systems.

Qualifications

• 10 + years of related experience.
• Current TS/SCI Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off, short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance, and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

Pay

$146,200 - $197,800

Schedule

Hybrid work environment with 3 days on site in Fayetteville, NC and two days WFH