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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Rapid Prototyping Process, Large Language Models, Deep Learning, Agentic-AI, Build Management
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/2_171588007

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience building AI agents, deep learning models and fine-tuned LLMs, deployed into production
 * Strong Python engineering, with a track record of shipping systems that people use
 * Customer-facing engineering xrbllit or forward deployed experience
 * Defence tech, Intelligence Community, military or US Government background
 * Experience delivering applications into DoW, IC or government environments
 * Active TS/SCI clearance preferred; Secret considered
 * Based in, or willing to relocate to, the DC area, and able to work from the Pentagon three to four days a week

## Description

* Join a forward-deployed AI engineering team embedded with the Chief Digital and AI Office on a rapid prototyping programme
 * Work directly with Pentagon departments to understand their problems and translate them into AI solutions
 * Build and deploy AI agents and applications in sprints of a couple of months, from prototype to production
 * Own systems end to end, from discovery and architecture through deployment, security and iteration
 * Join a team of three scaling to ten or more, reporting to the Director of Research