Generative AI Engineer - Secret-Cleared, Govt Systems

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Generative AI Software Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. The role develops secure AI services, integrates with Appian, and ensures governance and safety controls in a government contracting environment.

The candidate will craft retrieval-augmented workflows, build robust prompts, and participate in DevSecOps pipelines, SBOMs, and documentation while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
• Four or more years of software engineering experience with large language models or generative AI services.
• Strong Python or backend development skills and experience with REST APIs, authentication, structured data, testing, and observability.
• U.S. citizenship and active security clearance or eligibility for the assigned work.

Responsibilities

• Develop generative AI services for approved use cases such as document drafting, policy analysis, knowledge retrieval, summarization, and diagnostic assistance.
• Implement secure integrations between Appian and authorized model endpoints using structured requests and responses.
• Build retrieval-augmented generation workflows using approved sources, metadata, access controls, and citation requirements.
• Develop prompt templates, orchestration logic, validation rules, guardrails, and exception-handling paths.
• Create automated evaluation suites for accuracy, groundedness, citation quality, safety, latency, cost, and expected behavior.

Skills

Python

AI service development

REST APIs

Observability

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Appian

DevSecOps pipelines

SBOM tooling

Job description

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Generative AI Software Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. The role develops secure AI services, integrates with Appian, and ensures governance and safety controls in a government contracting environment.

The candidate will craft retrieval-augmented workflows, build robust prompts, and participate in DevSecOps pipelines, SBOMs, and documentation while