Generative AI Applications Engineer (Agents & RAG)

Accenture Federal Services; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 103,200 - 203,400; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm supporting federal operations seeks a candidate to develop secure and scalable GenAI applications. This hands-on role involves integrating advanced technologies while ensuring safety and privacy. Responsibilities include building retrieval systems and defining quality metrics. Ideal candidates should have strong Python skills and prior experience with LLMs. U.S. citizenship is required. The position offers competitive pay ranging from $103,200 to $203,400 USD, depending on experience and location.

Qualifications

• Integration, deployment, observability, incident response experience.
• Production experience with LLMs and transformer-based applications.
• Experience in real-world constraints like Zero Trust principles.

Responsibilities

• Design mission-grade GenAI applications.
• Implement platform integrations with no model training.
• Build retrieval pipelines and conduct quality evaluations.
• Define SLIs/SLOs for quality, latency, safety, and cost.

Skills

End-to-end ownership of production systems

Hands-on experience with LLMs

Strong Python skills

Experience with vector search

U.S. citizenship

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

Google Vertex AI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the U.S. federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands‑on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Build AI that matters. We ship production GenAI apps for confidential federal programs across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health where reliability, privacy, and safety aren’t optional. AFS is a technology company within global Accenture and a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work. You’ll join a collaborative, inclusive community with hand‑on growth, certifications, and industry training. We ship in weeks, not quarters, and measure success with latency, reliability, safety, and cost.

We don’t disclose program details publicly. If you advance, we’ll share specifics during the process.

Role Overview

You’ll turn mission needs into secure, reliable, and scalable GenAI applications with no model training required. This is a hands‑on role across agentic workflows, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), prompt/policy design, LLM evaluation, and platform integration. You’ll own the end‑to‑end path from use case evaluation to production deployment to operational excellence, partnering with product, security, data, and SRE to ship features safely and at scale.

What You’ll Do (Day To Day)

• Design & ship mission grade GenAI: Build agentic workflows and RAG systems tailored to mission data and environments; target low hallucination, tight p95 latency, and predictable cost.
• Agent frameworks & orchestration: Apply patterns from LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel; design task decomposition, tool use, guardrails, and recovery/fallback strategies.
• Platform integration (no model training): Implement with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Amazon Kendra, and managed services (e.g., Document AI, Gemini, Gemma).
• LLM selection & evaluation: Compare models for quality, safety, latency, cost; author/test prompts & policies; deploy with observability and safe rollback/fallback.
• RAG done right: Build retrieval pipelines & vector search (Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, pgvector, FAISS/Chroma); handle data prep, chunking, metadata, and IR‑style evals (e.g., NDCG) to maximize signal‑to‑noise.
• Production rigor: Instrument metrics/logs/traces; run A/B experiments; maintain incident playbooks; and implement safety & compliance guardrails.
• SRE & FinOps for AI: Define SLIs/SLOs (quality/latency/safety/cost), run on‑call and post‑mortems, reduce MTTR; meter usage and optimize token/spend.
• Reusable platform components: Ship SDKs, CI/CD templates, Terraform/IaC modules, evaluation harnesses that accelerate multiple mission teams not one‑off projects.
• Operate in real world constraints: Deliver into hybrid, restricted, or air‑gapped environments with Zero Trust principles and audit‑ready controls.

You’ll Thrive Here If You Have

• End‑to‑end ownership of production systems: integration, deployment, observability, incident response.
• Hands‑on experience with LLMs, transformer‑based apps, and RAG in production.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience with vector search and retrieval (Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, pgvector, FAISS/Chroma) and grounding AI in enterprise/mission data.
• U.S. citizenship.

Nice to Have

• Integration with leading cloud AI services or on‑prem inference stacks.
• Background in LLM evaluation, prompt authoring/testing, A/B experimentation, and LLM Ops.
• Responsible AI expertise (privacy, security, bias, transparency, human‑in‑the‑loop) and data governance.
• Experience implementing tools using agents for API integration and external data access.
• Containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, VMware) and scripting/automation (Linux Bash, PowerShell).
• Prior work in regulated/secure environments (e.g., ATO, STIGs, Zero Trust) with fast shipping.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA AI Foundations, OpenAI ChatGPT, and AI‑assisted dev tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude).
• Contributions to internal frameworks or open‑source; mentorship of engineers.
• Clear communication with engineers, PMs, and security/compliance stakeholders.

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the following states and the city of Cleveland: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, District of Columbia, and Cleveland.

The base pay range for this position in these locations is $103,200—$203,400 USD. Compensation varies depending on office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

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