Mission-Critical GenAI Applications Engineer

Accenture Federal Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 103,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks engineers to build secure GenAI applications across defense and federal programs. You will own end-to-end delivery from use-case eval to production, integrating with major cloud AI services and maintaining strict operational standards.

The role emphasizes hands-on GenAI development, RAG, and secure deployment in hybrid or restricted environments, with a focus on safety, latency, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Built and deployed a production GenAI application (chatbot, copilot, assistant).
• Hands-on with LLMs GPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Mistral via APIs or self-hosted.
• Designed and implemented RAG solutions using embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search for enterprise or mission data.
• Shipped AI applications with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, DSPy, or similar.
• Strong Python development for building and integrating AI/ML applications.
• Owned AI solutions through full production life cycle, deployment and operational support.
• Active U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Platform integration (no model training): Integrate with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, and other managed services.
• LLM selection & evaluation: Compare models for quality, safety, latency, cost; deploy with observability and safe rollback/fallback.
• RAG pipelines & vector search: Build retrieval pipelines with Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, FAISS, or Chroma.
• Instrumentation & operations: Monitor metrics/logs/traces; run A/B experiments; maintain incident playbooks; implement guardrails.
• Zero Trust & airgapped environments: Deliver in restricted environments with audit-ready controls.

Skills

LLMs

Python

RAG

Frameworks

Cloud APIs

Containerization

Docker

Kubernetes

Communication

Security & Compliance

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

Google Vertex AI

Pinecone

Weaviate

OpenSearch

FAISS

Chroma

LangChain

Terraform

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks engineers to build secure GenAI applications across defense and federal programs. You will own end-to-end delivery from use-case eval to production, integrating with major cloud AI services and maintaining strict operational standards.

The role emphasizes hands-on GenAI development, RAG, and secure deployment in hybrid or restricted environments, with a focus on safety, latency, and cost efficiency.