Forward-Deployed AI Engineer | Mission-Critical Systems

Appsierra Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonuses available

Comprehensive benefits

Health insurance reimb.

Paid time off

401(k) with match

Remote-first workforce

Job summary

Appsierra Group seeks a Member of Technical Staff to advance forward-deployed AI systems for U.S. Government missions. The hybrid Washington, DC role focuses on building production-ready agentic AI, large language models, and robust data pipelines across high-security environments.

You will own end-to-end systems from experimentation to deployment, collaborating with strategic partners and maintaining reliability and security while delivering mission-worthy AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering skills and end-to-end ownership of systems.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
• Familiarity with LLMs and building agentic systems.
• Ability to work in high-security, high-reliability environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy agentic AI systems for government missions.
• Design and integrate LLM applications including multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, and RAG workflows.
• Work with government partners to translate mission needs into technical solutions.
• Develop infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, evaluation and deployment.
• Own systems across the full lifecycle from discovery to iteration.

Skills

Python engineering

Agentic systems

Data pipelines

ML infrastructure

Security & reliability

LLMs

Job description

Appsierra Group seeks a Member of Technical Staff to advance forward-deployed AI systems for U.S. Government missions. The hybrid Washington, DC role focuses on building production-ready agentic AI, large language models, and robust data pipelines across high-security environments.

You will own end-to-end systems from experimentation to deployment, collaborating with strategic partners and maintaining reliability and security while delivering mission-worthy AI capabilities.