AI Coding Tools Engineer

Ampcus, Inc; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking an AI Coding Tools Engineer to spearhead evaluation, piloting, and scaling of secure AI coding assistants across the enterprise from Chantilly, VA.

You will coordinate with Security, Training, and Enablement teams to ensure rapid adoption and governance compliance. Responsibilities include integrating assistants into IDEs and CLI workflows, configuring guardrails per NIST, and maintaining platform health.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience with leading AI Coding Assistants.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, developer experience engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
• Experience integrating or evaluating LLM powered developer tools (e.g., code completion, chat-based programming assistance, test generation, refactoring tools).
• Understanding of NIST compliance and government cloud environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise DevSecOps practices, modern IDEs, and secure software development lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, pilot, operationalize, maintain, and scale AI coding assistant tools across the enterprise.
• Integrate coding assistants into IDEs (VS Code), terminals/CLI workflows, and source control ecosystems.
• Configure AI guardrails including content filtering, prompt shielding, and role-based access controls aligned with enterprise and NIST requirements.
• Collaborate with Security Team to prepare ATO evidence, SSP updates, control narratives, risk registers, and monitoring artifacts.
• Work with Training and Enablement Team to develop training, compliance, and end-user/best practice guides.
• Support coding assistant office hours to aid developer enablement and adoption.
• Monitor platform health and guardrail performance; track issues and patches.

Skills

AI Coding Assistants

Software Engineering

DevSecOps

NIST Compliance

IDE Integration

Tools

VS Code

Bedrock GovCloud

Azure OpenAI Gov

Vertex AI

Job description

Ampcus Inc.

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

AI Coding Tools Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA.

Job Description

The AI Coding Tools Engineer (GenAI & Agentic Systems) evaluates, pilots, operationalizes, maintains, and scales adoption of secure AI coding assistant tools across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Coding Assistant Evaluation
  • Conduct structured evaluations of leading enterprise AI coding assistants, including features, model performance, security, integration complexity, and developer ergonomics.
• AI Coding Assistant Piloting, Launching & Adoption Support
  • Integrate coding assistants into IDEs (VS Code), terminals/CLI workflows, and source control ecosystems.
  • Configure AI guardrails, including content filtering, prompt shielding, and role-based access controls aligned with enterprise and NIST requirements.
  • Work with Security Team to prepare ATO evidence, including SSP updates, control narratives, risk registers, and continuous monitoring artifacts.
  • Work with Training and Enablement Team to develop training, compliance, and end-user/best practice guides.
  • Support Coding Assistant "office hours" to support developer enablement and accelerate adoption.
  • Collect user feedback, track adoption metrics, and iteratively refine usage patterns for different developer roles.
• AI Coding Assistant Operations & Maintenance Support
  • Monitor platform health and guardrail performance.
  • Support analysis and remediation of integration or platform issues impacting the coding assistants.
  • Track, evaluate, and support application of coding assistant updates and patches.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience with leading AI Coding Assistants.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, developer experience engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
• Experience integrating or evaluating LLM powered developer tools (e.g., code completion, chat-based programming assistance, test generation, refactoring tools).
• Understanding of NIST compliance and government cloud environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise DevSecOps practices, modern IDEs, and secure software development lifecycles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience leading enterprise adoption of AI coding assistants (pilot design, rollout planning, governance alignment).
• Hands on experience with Amazon Bedrock GovCloud, Azure OpenAI (Gov), and/or Vertex AI (Assured Workloads) for production workloads.
• Experience building multi-step agent workflows on Bedrock Agents, implementing Bedrock Guardrails, or building RAG/semantic search systems via Vertex AI Search.
• Experience supporting ATO artifacts and design/testing of controls.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans, or individuals with disabilities.