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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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