Generative AI Software Engineer, Secret Clearance, Remote

Koniag Government Services, LLC; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Tuknik Government Services, LLC a Koniag Government Services company is seeking a Generative AI Software Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. The role focuses on building secure AI services and workflows within approved architectures and governance.

You will implement retrieval-augmented generation, prompt orchestration, automated evaluations, and DevSecOps delivery while coordinating with multiple government and product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
• Four or more years of software engineering experience, including practical development with large language models or generative AI services.

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 authoritative 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.
• Implement role-based access, data minimization, redaction, audit logging, model/prompt versioning, and human-approval controls.
• Package and deploy AI components through approved DevSecOps pipelines and produce SBOM, test, security, and release evidence.
• Monitor production quality, usage, failures, token or consumption patterns, and user feedback and tune solutions within approved limits.
• Investigate AI-related defects and coordinate corrections with Appian, data, security, API, and product teams.
• Document solution architecture, data flows, prompts, evaluations, operational procedures, and known limitations.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Observability

DevSecOps

Prompt engineering

Retrieval-augmented generation

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Appian

Job description

Tuknik Government Services, LLC a Koniag Government Services company is seeking a Generative AI Software Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. The role focuses on building secure AI services and workflows within approved architectures and governance.

You will implement retrieval-augmented generation, prompt orchestration, automated evaluations, and DevSecOps delivery while coordinating with multiple government and product teams.