Agentic AI Engineer — Secure Mission Data Systems

Frontdoor Defense; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

Company stock options

Home office budget

Flexible time off (FTO) and federalhol

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks an Applied AI Engineer to embed with a government team and its tech partners, building an AI-powered engineering ecosystem. You will design, implement, and integrate agentic capabilities that enable AI to interact with tools, access enterprise data, and execute multi-step workflows.

The role focuses on reliable, secure software in classified environments, requiring hands-on software engineering and collaboration with partners to resolve integration challenges and drive

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience building agentic AI applications.
• Experience with LLM tool calling, multi-step workflows, or agent orchestration.
• Strong proficiency with Python and backend software development.
• Experience integrating LLMs into applications using APIs, SDKs, or comparable technologies.
• Experience building and integrating REST APIs and connecting applications with external services or data sources.

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 to provide relevant context for AI applications.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Python and modern software engineering practices.
• Collaborate with data engineers to ensure agents can access reliable, relevant, and appropriately governed enterprise data.

Skills

Python

LLM tools

Agent orchestration

REST APIs

Git

Cloud-native

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

LangGraph

LangChain

AutoGen

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks an Applied AI Engineer to embed with a government team and its tech partners, building an AI-powered engineering ecosystem. You will design, implement, and integrate agentic capabilities that enable AI to interact with tools, access enterprise data, and execute multi-step workflows.

The role focuses on reliable, secure software in classified environments, requiring hands-on software engineering and collaboration with partners to resolve integration challenges and drive