Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Ampcus Inc; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc in Chantilly, VA seeks an AI Coding Tools Engineer (Sr. AI Full-Stack Engineer) to evaluate, pilot, operationalize, maintain, and scale secure AI coding assistants across the enterprise.

You'll integrate tools into IDEs like VS Code, configure guardrails, coordinate with Security and Enablement teams, and support adoption and training. Candidates should have 3–5 years in software engineering and 2+ years with AI coding assistants, with DevSecOps experience and NIST compliance

Qualifications

• 2+ years with leading AI coding assistants.
• 3–5 years in software engineering or related roles.
• Experience integrating or evaluating LLM-powered developer tools.
• Understanding of NIST compliance and government cloud environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise DevSecOps practices and secure SDLCs.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate enterprise AI coding assistants (features, performance, security).
• Integrate coding assistants into IDEs, terminals, and source-control workflows.
• Configure guardrails (content filtering, prompt-shielding, access controls).
• Support ATO artifacts, SSP updates, risk registers, and monitoring artifacts.

Skills

AI coding tools

Software engineering

DevSecOps

NIST compliance

LLM integration

Tools

VS Code

Bedrock GovCloud

Azure OpenAI Gov

Job description

Job Title: AI Coding Tools Engineer ((Sr. AI Full-Stack Engineer with Coding Tools [Claude Code, Codex] and agentic AI)

Location: Chantilly, VA

Notes

• Windows and Linux experience (ideally Admin experience) and capable of configuring different coding tools in internal hosted Windows and Linux environments.
• Project management and communications skills to be able to manage different projects and communicate with different parties, with the client, for supporting the operation and roll‑out of a variety of coding assistant tools.
• Familiarity with some of the existing coding assistant tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cline, Codex).

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.