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Job Description
Fully onsite in Washington, DC, this Senior AI Engineering role focuses on building and deploying AI and LLM-powered applications for cyber-defense use cases, including agentic AI designed to perform in adversarial or contested environments. You will work at the intersection of model behavior, orchestration, and real-world constraints, with a compensation package that includes competitive salary and equity plus comprehensive health coverage.
What you’ll do
- Build and deploy AI/LLM-powered applications end to end
- Develop autonomous agentic AI systems with hands-on execution
- Apply experience across agentic AI, multi-agent systems, orchestration, fine-tuning, model evaluation, and autonomous decision-making
- Design and build agents that operate in adversarial or contested environments
What you bring
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Experience with the Python, PyTorch, and ML stack
- Hands-on experience building autonomous agentic AI systems
- Deep familiarity with how frontier models behave
- Rigorous instincts on the data side
- Knowledge of running models on constrained hardware
Technologies
- Python
- PyTorch
Compensation and benefits
Competitive Salary + Equity is offered, along with full-health benefits.
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k)
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