Agentic AI Engineer & Data Scientist

Booz Allen Hamilton; United States; On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid leave

Professional development

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI and ML Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions. You will build agentic AI capabilities, retrieval-augmented pipelines, and evaluation frameworks to enable analysts to transform fragmented data into actionable intelligence.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clients and mission stakeholders to ensure reliability, explainability, and security while aligning with operational requirements and mission

Qualifications

• Experience developing, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML/NLP solutions for mission or enterprise use.
• Experience building AI-enabled applications using Python and libraries like PyTorch, Scikit-Learn.
• Ability to translate mission requirements into technical AI prototypes and production-ready capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI systems that transform complex data into actionable intelligence.
• Build agentic AI capabilities to reason over data, orchestrate workflows, and support human‑in‑the‑loop decisions.
• Develop retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and prompt strategies.
• Ensure systems are reliable, explainable, secure, and aligned to operational requirements.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

NLP

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Hugging Face

CUDA

Prompt engineering

Agentic AI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, CS, AI, ML, Engineering, OR Applied Mathematics, or Statistics

Master’s degree in Data Science, CS, AI, ML, Engineering, OR Applied Mathematics, or Statistics

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

REST services

Git

CI/CD

Plotly

Dash

Streamlit

Tableau

Power BI

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI and ML Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions. You will build agentic AI capabilities, retrieval-augmented pipelines, and evaluation frameworks to enable analysts to transform fragmented data into actionable intelligence.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clients and mission stakeholders to ensure reliability, explainability, and security while aligning with operational requirements and mission