AI/ML Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; Monterey (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to push agentic AI into client workflows. You will embed with client teams, observe how work actually happens, and design AI agents that integrate with existing tools and data sources.

You will build evaluation frameworks, establish auditability, and scale from shadow mode to production while training teams and building reusable components. A strong coding background in Python or TypeScript is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/ML engineering or related roles.
• 4+ years building gen AI/agentic AI applications.
• Experience deploying LLM-powered systems to production with monitoring and integration.
• Production code in Python or TypeScript.
• Experience eliciting requirements and mapping business processes.
• Knowledge of evaluation techniques for non-deterministic systems (golden datasets, regression tests).
• Ability to travel up to 10% and hold Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Embed with client teams to observe and document workflows and data flows.
• Design, build, and deploy AI agents that operate across tools and data sources.
• Develop evaluation frameworks, datasets, and tests to scale agents to production.
• Institute audit trails, monitoring, and metrics for leadership visibility.
• Drive adoption and change management, train workforce, and modularize learnings into playbooks.

Skills

8+ years experience

4+ years generative AI

Production AI deployments

Python/TypeScript

Customer requirements elicitation

Evaluation techniques for non-determin

Travel up to 10%

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (nice to have)

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Job description

AI/ML Engineer The Opportunity:

As an AI‑forward engineer, you know that access to frontier models is increasingly universal—what differentiates organizations is their ability to deploy them effectively. Your strength is embedding with teams, mapping how work actually happens, and converting that understanding into reliable AI agents that transform operations. We’re seeking technical depth, consultative instincts, and an ownership mindset to bring agentic AI to workflows where it matters most. You’ll join a forward‑deployed engineering cohort that operates close to the mission: engaging on billable client programs where people execute well‑defined processes by hand. Your mission is to move from humans executing flowcharts to agents executing flowcharts—elevating humans into supervisors of that automation. You’ll map workflows and exception paths, decide where deterministic software ends and model judgment begins, and build agents that are reliable, observable, and auditable from day one. You’ll validate performance with evaluation suites and scale from shadow mode to production. Equally important, you’ll bring people along—winning trust, managing change, training the workforce, and leaving every engagement more capable than you found it. You won’t do this alone. You’ll have structured reach‑back to a central engineering community focused on removing blockers, accelerating data and policy access, and turning field‑built solutions into reusable patterns, playbooks, and shared capabilities. Patterns proven once become capabilities many teams can reuse. Join us to define how AI transformation gets delivered—one workflow, one agent at a time.

What You'll Work On:

Embed with client teams to observe and document how work actually happens, including workflows, systems, data flows, decision points, and the exception paths that aren’t captured in formal documentation. Produce operating maps and automation roadmaps that prioritize high‑volume workflows by expected value and risk and determine where deterministic software, agent judgment, and human‑in‑the‑loop approvals each belong. Design, build, and deploy AI agents that reason, plan, and act across existing tools, APIs, and data sources—integrating with current systems rather than forcing migrations. Develop evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, and regression tests to turn non‑deterministic behavior into evidence and scale agents from shadow mode to increasing autonomy to production. Instrument everything: audit trails, monitoring, and metrics that let leadership see exactly what agents are doing and the value delivered in hours saved, risk reduced, and outcomes improved. Drive adoption and change management, train the workforce, redesign roles around supervision of automation, and de‑risk the transformation for people living through it. Codify learnings into playbooks, reusable components, and field feedback to continuously improve shared capabilities across engagements. Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, technical consulting, or solutions engineering roles
• 4+ years of experience building applications with generative and agentic AI technologies such as LLMs, retrieval‑augmented generation, or multi‑agent orchestration
• Experience deploying LLM‑powered systems or AI agents to production, including evaluation, monitoring, and iteration after launch, and integrating with enterprise systems and data sources such as ERP, CRM, ITSM, or knowledge repositories
• Experience developing production code in Python or TypeScript
• Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders to elicit requirements, map business processes, and guide adoption of new technology
• Knowledge of evaluation techniques for non‑deterministic systems, including golden datasets, regression testing, and human‑in‑the‑loop feedback
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments and communicate with audiences ranging from engineers to executives
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience working in a DoW or DoA environment
• Experience with agent development and orchestration frameworks such as graph‑based planners, tool‑calling agents, or agent SDKs
• Experience in forward‑deployed, embedded, or residency‑style engineering roles at client sites
• Experience with organizational change management, including training, communications, workforce transition, or user adoption programs
• Experience with business process analysis or process mapping, including BPMN or value‑stream mapping
• Experience with major cloud platforms and containerized deployment such as public cloud services, Kubernetes, or infrastructure‑as‑code
• Ability to quantify automation impact, including cost savings, risk mitigation, or revenue uplift
• Master’s degree
• Agile or Cloud Certifications
• Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance 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 $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (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.

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