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Job Description
Build and productionize LLM capabilities in a classified enterprise analytic environment.
Responsibilities
- Implement orchestration logic, tool integrations, and memory handling for agent-based applications; contribute design early and expand ownership over time
- Own documentation and delivery for: document processing, embedding generation, retrieval configuration, and prompt assembly
- Develop Python REST APIs to support data retrieval, system integration, and agent workflows
- Process and transform structured and unstructured data for AI workflows; work with Postgres schemas and improve query performance
- Handle testing, deployment, and production realities inside a classified environment
- Design and lead end to end orchestration across the platform
Requirements
- Active TS Clearance
- Top Secret (Required)
- Bachelor’s in computer science or related field (additional experience considered in lieu)
Technical Skills
- Python
- REST APIs
- Postgres
- SQL
- LLMs
- RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
- Elasticsearch
- Docker
- MCP
Seniority Expectations
- Junior-level
- Solid Python with real production code
- Experience building or consuming REST APIs
- Comfort with databases and SQL
- Some hands-on exposure to LLMs or a RAG prototype, an agent you wired up, a side project, or a course (curiosity and practical exploration)
- Bachelor’s in computer science or a related field (additional experience considered in lieu)
- Mid-level
- Hands-on work building LLM-integrated applications, RAG workflows, or retrieval-based systems
- Working familiarity with agent concepts for at least one AI framework
- Understanding of transformer fundamentals, context windows, and where retrieval breaks down
- Enough production experience to form opinions on reliability and maintainability
- Senior-level
- 8+ years of software engineering experience overall with recent hands-on work building AI/ML applications
- Bachelor’s in computer science or a related field
- Strong Python and fluency with common data and AI libraries
- Demonstrated experience with LLM-integrated applications, RAG workflows, or similar retrieval-based systems
- Working knowledge of agent-based programming
- Solid grounding in transformers, LLM behavior, data processing, and model integration patterns
- Experience designing or integrating REST APIs
- Production engineering habits: testing, reliability, deployment
Nice to Have
- Elasticsearch optimization
- Docker and containerized development
- MCP or similar agent-to-tool protocols
Location and Work Mode
- Herndon, VA
- Onsite
- In person
Compensation
- USD 120,000 - 210,000 per yearly
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
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