Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Ampcus Inc; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking an AI Coding Tools Engineer (GenAI & Agentic Systems) to evaluate, pilot, operate, and scale secure AI coding assistant tools across the enterprise. You will integrate assistants into IDEs (VS Code) and workflows, configure guardrails to meet NIST compliance, and collaborate with Security to produce ATO evidence.

You will work with Training teams to create enablement guides, manage office hours for developers, and collect adoption metrics to refine usage across roles.

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

• Conduct structured evaluations of leading enterprise AI coding assistants, including features, model performance, security, integration complexity, and developer ergonomics.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

AI coding assistants

DevSecOps

IDE integration

LLM-powered tools

NIST compliance

Tools

VS Code

Bedrock GovCloud

Azure OpenAI Gov

Vertex AI

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

• 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.