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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** San Antonio, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Azure Machine Learning, JSON Web Token, Systems Integration, Enterprise Data Management, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Containerization, Integration Tests, Deployment Automation, ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) Format, Virtual Agents, Data Pipelines, Databricks, Web Api
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0bbbd45b-a622-455d-832d-87d1166090d9

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining production sof tware systems in Python
 * Experience designing and implementing intelligent AI agent architectures using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, MCP, and A2A
 * Experience building RAG solutions with KGs and fine-tuning SLMs using ONNX, GGML, or Ollama
 * Experience integrating LLMs, external APIs, and distributed services into production environments with optimized inference workflows
 * Experience developing AI evaluation frameworks, integration tests, and production validation using ReAct and human-in-the-loop met hodologies
 * Knowledge of secure HTTP APIs, OAuth2, JWT, API Keys, containerization, and CI / CD pipelines
 * Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
 * TS/SCI clearance
 * Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or Data Science
 * DoD 8140 baseline Level II Certification such as Security+, CySA+, CISSP, or DoD Cyber Workforce Framework Certification

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience supporting DoW clients or other federal mission environments
 * Experience with advanced agentic patterns, including prompt caching, guardrails, agentic memory, Model Context Protocol ( MCP ) , and agentic deployment strategies
 * Experience with end-to-end chatbot or agent to agent ( A2A ) development
 * Experience with enterprise data and ML platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake
 * Experience creating and managing large data processing pipelines
 * Master's degree

## Description

As an AI Engineer, you will integrate AI-enabled capabilities into existing sof tware systems by connecting models, inference endpoints, agent orchestration components, and intelligent autonomous workflows to production applications. You will implement AI features using established sof tware engineering patterns, ensuring these capabilities operate reliably, securely, and efficiently within distributed systems.


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