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Data & AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

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Data & AI Engineer (Agentic Systems) in USA new

  • Defense Unicorns
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Springfield, VA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain agentic AI applications integrating LLMs, tools, APIs, and enterprise data.
  • Develop AI agents that execute multi-step tasks, interact with external services, and coordinate actions across existing systems.
  • Implement agent orchestration, tool calling, workflow state management, error handling, and human oversight.
  • Build and integrate RAG pipelines, semantic search, embeddings, and vector-based retrieval.
  • Develop Python backend services and REST APIs and integrate applications with external services, data sources, enterprise platforms, and existing software workflows.
  • Establish testing, evaluation, monitoring, reliability, documentation, reusable components, and operational standards for AI agents and LLM-powered applications.
  • Collaborate with data and platform engineers to access governed enterprise data and deploy AI applications in Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI/CD environments.
  • Troubleshoot issues across agent behavior, APIs, data access, application services, infrastructure, and AI components.
  • Work with government engineers and commercial technology partners to resolve integration challenges and support mission delivery.

Requirements

  • Approximately 3–5 years of software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated technical capability.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic AI applications, including AI agents, LLM tool calling, multi-step workflows, or agent orchestration.
  • Strong proficiency with Python and backend software development.
  • Experience integrating LLMs into applications through APIs, SDKs, or comparable technologies.
  • Experience building and integrating REST APIs and connecting applications with external services or data sources.
  • Understanding of agent workflows, tool execution, state management, and error handling.
  • Experience with Git, testing, debugging, cloud-native or containerized environments, and modern software development practices.
  • Ability to troubleshoot across APIs, data services, infrastructure, and AI components and translate ambiguous mission needs into working software.
  • Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
  • Ability to support approximately 2–3 days per week onsite in Springfield, Virginia, with additional onsite presence as mission needs increase.
  • Preferred experience with LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or comparable agentic AI frameworks.
  • Preferred experience developing multi-agent systems, autonomous workflows, AI-enabled software development tools, Model Context Protocol, function calling, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, or knowledge graphs.
  • GEOINT experience is preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Remote-USA arrangement with approximately 2–3 days per week onsite in Springfield, Virginia, increasing as mission needs require.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums 100% company paid.
  • Health Savings Account, life insurance, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and home office budget.
  • Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions and conference travel, lodging, and fees.

Salary: $149k - $201k/yr

Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns specializes in platform technologies that enable rapid and reliable delivery of capabilities across a wide range of mission and technology areas. We support open architecture platforms for secure mission systems that provide optionality for the end user, promote scalability, and ...

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