AI Integration Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 112,800 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI Engineer to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into production software by linking models, endpoints, and orchestration components. You will ensure reliable, secure operations within distributed systems and contribute to evaluation and monitoring approaches while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable AI functionality.

The role emphasizes transforming AI concepts into real-world engineering, with a focus on integration patterns, tests,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production software in Python.
• Experience integrating external services or APIs into distributed systems.
• Experience implementing inference request flows, including latency, token limits, and batching.
• Experience writing integration tests for multi-service environments.
• Experience integrating large language models into production services, including managing inference requests, model responses, and error handling.
• Knowledge of HTTP API design patterns and authentication mechanisms (OAuth2, API keys, or JWT).
• Knowledge of containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or Data Science.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

API integration

Testing

LLMs in production

HTTP API design

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Kafka

SQS

SNS

Redis

Postgres

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

The Opportunity:

As an AI Engineer, you will integrate AI-enabled capabilities into existing software systems by connecting models, inference endpoints, and orchestration components to production applications. You will implement AI features using established integration and software engineering patterns, ensuring these capabilities operate reliably, securely, and efficiently within distributed systems. You’ll contribute to evaluation and monitoring approaches, refine integration workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable AI functionality. Your work will help bring AI from concept into real-world environments through thoughtful, well-structured engineering.

Job Number: R0244601

The Opportunity:

As an AI Engineer, you will integrate AI-enabled capabilities into existing software systems by connecting models, inference endpoints, and orchestration components to production applications. You will implement AI features using established integration and software engineering patterns, ensuring these capabilities operate reliably, securely, and efficiently within distributed systems. You’ll contribute to evaluation and monitoring approaches, refine integration workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable AI functionality. Your work will help bring AI from concept into real-world environments through thoughtful, well-structured engineering.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems in Python
• Experience integrating external services or APIs into distributed systems
• Experience implementing inference request flows, including handling latency, token limits, and batching strategies
• Experience writing integration tests for multi-service environments
• Experience integrating large language models into production services, including managing inference requests, model responses, and error-handling flows
• Knowledge of HTTP API design patterns, including authentication mechanisms such as OAuth2, API keys, or JWT
• Knowledge of containerization and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or Data Science

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with message queues or event streaming, including Kafka, and SQS or SNS, and patterns for idempotency and handling out-of-order or duplicate events
• Experience implementing resilience patterns such as retries with backoff, timeouts, and circuit breakers, to ensure reliable system behavior
• Experience with cloud AI platform tooling such as AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, or Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Experience with multi-step agentic workflows or orchestration concepts and how they integrate into existing systems
• Experience with agent memory concepts such as session-level and persistent state, and how they relate to application logic
• Experience with orchestration frameworks for AI-enabled systems such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen, and supporting data stores such as Redis and Postgres

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.