Agentic AI Engineer for Secure Govt Systems (Remote)

Defense Unicorns; Springfield (VA); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Health Savings Account

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Stock options

Home office budget

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Training & conferences

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks an Applied AI Engineer to embed with a government team and partners, building an AI-powered engineering ecosystem. You will design, implement, and integrate agentic AI capabilities enabling LLMs to interact with tools, data, and multi-step workflows across existing platforms.

You will work on LLM integration, agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and API integrations, contributing to secure, mission-focused software in a government environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building agentic AI applications including AI agents, LLM tool calling, multi-step workflows or orchestration.
• Strong proficiency with Python and backend software development.
• Experience integrating LLMs into applications via APIs, SDKs, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain agentic AI applications that integrate LLMs, tools, APIs, and enterprise data to support mission workflows.
• Develop AI agents capable of executing multi-step tasks, interacting with external services, and coordinating actions across existing systems.
• Implement agent orchestration, tool calling, workflow state management, error handling, and appropriate human oversight.
• Build and integrate RAG pipelines, semantic search, embeddings, and vector-based retrieval for relevant context.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Python and modern software engineering practices.
• Integrate agentic AI capabilities into existing applications and CI/CD workflows.

Skills

Agentic AI apps

Python backend

LLM tool calling

API integration

REST APIs

Git/testing

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks an Applied AI Engineer to embed with a government team and partners, building an AI-powered engineering ecosystem. You will design, implement, and integrate agentic AI capabilities enabling LLMs to interact with tools, data, and multi-step workflows across existing platforms.

You will work on LLM integration, agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and API integrations, contributing to secure, mission-focused software in a government environment.