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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Engineer - **Company:** Anika Systems - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Starter - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Computational Linguistics, Computer Engineering, Relational Databases, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, OAuth, OpenID, Role-Based Access Control, Zero Trust Network Access, JSON Web Token, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Okta, ReactJS, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Grafana, Generative AI, Fastapi, Information Technology, Code Inspection, Cloudwatch, Databricks, Crud - **Published:** June 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8975700/ai-engineer ## About the Role Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance., * Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field; Master's is a bonus. * Experience: 1-3 years of professional experience building and shipping ML or NLP systems, including focus on LLM based or Generative AI solutions. * Strong production experience in Python and TypeScript, with modern web frameworks on both sides (e.g. FastAPI, React). * Hands-on integration of LLMs into real applications - streaming, tool / function calling, token accounting, and failure handling - across at least one of OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, or Azure OpenAI. * Experience designing agentic systems: multi-step workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails. * Solid relational data modeling on PostgreSQL with an async ORM and migration tooling. * AWS fluency (compute, storage, IAM, secrets, networking, observability) and infrastructure-as-code, ideallyTerraform. * Practical understanding of OAuth / OIDC, JWT, RBAC, multi-tenant isolation, and least-privilege design. * Disciplined testing, linting, and type-checking habits; reviewable diffs and clear written communication. Preferred Skills * Federal program exposure: NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, ATO process, or agency-specific data-handling requirements. * Experience with Keycloak or another OIDC provider, RLS-based multi-tenancy, or zero-trust application design. * Working knowledge of a data/lakehouse platform (Databricks, Snowflake) and SQL beyond CRUD. * Document AI / OCR pipelines and modernization of legacy enterprise workflows. * Production observability (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and incident-response experience. * Supply-chain hardening: SBOMs, dependency scanning, signed builds, threat modeling. ## Description The AI Engineers will design and deliver production AI systems across our commercial platform work and our federal modernization programs. This is a hands-on builder role on a small, senior team. Engineers own work end-to-end including data, model integration, services, UI, infrastructure, security, and deployment. 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