AI Engineer

Markon; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

401(k) match

Flexible Spending Accounts

EAP

Training and Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Job summary

Markon is hiring an AI Engineer to design, develop, test, and deploy AI-enabled, agentic solutions for an Intelligence Community customer’s Report Authoring and Dissemination program. This hybrid role in Annapolis Junction, MD focuses on turning mission workflows into scalable, production-ready capabilities by leveraging large language models and integrating them into existing enterprise applications.

You will design, test, and optimize prompts and agent instructions to improve accuracy,

Qualifications

• Must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field as listed.
• Strong Python development experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs via APIs or self-hosted setups.
• Experience designing agentic AI workflows and orchestration.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tools.
• Experience integrating AI into existing software via RESTful APIs and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows.
• Build multi-agent solutions using LLMs, prompt chaining, and tool integration.
• Develop production-quality Python code for enterprise architectures.
• Integrate foundation models through APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
• Design and optimize prompts and agent instructions for accuracy and reliability.
• Create evaluation processes to assess outputs against mission requirements.
• Collaborate with developers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend practical improvements.
• Provide technical documentation and communicate approaches to stakeholders.

Skills

Python development

Large language models

Agentic AI workflows

Prompt engineering

Analytical communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

RESTful APIs

Microservices

AWS

Job description

Markon is hiring an AI Engineer to design, develop, test, and deploy AI-enabled, agentic solutions for an Intelligence Community customer’s Report Authoring and Dissemination program. This hybrid role in Annapolis Junction, MD focuses on turning mission workflows into scalable, production-ready capabilities by leveraging existing large language models and integrating them into existing enterprise applications.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows to automate complex mission and reporting processes.
• Build and integrate multi-agent solutions using large language models, prompt chaining, tool integration, and orchestration frameworks.
• Develop production-quality Python code that supports AI capabilities within existing enterprise architectures.
• Integrate foundation models through APIs, microservices, and cloud-based services.
• Design, test, and optimize prompts and agent instructions to improve accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
• Create evaluation and validation processes to assess AI-generated outputs, identify errors, and help ensure mission requirements are met.
• Collaborate with software developers, systems engineers, and stakeholders to translate operational requirements into AI-driven solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tools, then recommend practical improvements to existing capabilities.
• Provide technical documentation and communicate implementation approaches, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders.

What you bring

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong Python development experience building and maintaining production-quality applications.
• Hands‑on experience developing applications using large language models via commercial or self‑hosted APIs.
• Experience designing agentic AI workflows, including multi‑agent orchestration, prompt chaining, and tool integration.
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or comparable technologies.
• Strong prompt engineering skills with experience testing and validating AI-generated outputs.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into existing software architectures using RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams.

Helpful experience

• Experience building retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines and working with vector databases.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, monitoring, and observability tools.
• Experience conducting exploratory data analysis on structured and unstructured datasets.
• Familiarity with MLOps and LLMOps practices for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining AI applications.
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community applications, reporting workflows, or dissemination processes.
• Experience implementing AI‑driven workflow automation within enterprise or mission‑critical systems.
• Work arrangement: Up to three days of telework per week, subject to customer approval.

Salary and benefits

Salary: USD $160,000 - $185,000 per year.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short‑Term Disability
• Long‑Term Disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• EAP
• Training and Tuition Assistance
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays

Technologies you’ll work with

Python, large language models, LangChain, LlamaIndex, RESTful APIs, microservices, Amazon Web Services, APIs, foundation models, prompt chaining, tool integration, and orchestration frameworks.