Remote Senior AI Agent Engineer for Secure Gov Workflows

Defense Unicorns

Springfield (VA)

Remote

USD 149,000 - 201,000

Full time

48 hours ago

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Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a senior AI Agentic Engineer to embed with government teams and partners, building an AI-powered engineering ecosystem. You will design, integrate, and operationalize AI agents and workflows within secure environments, interfacing with enterprise data, APIs, and developer tooling to deliver reliable and mission-relevant capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with platform engineers and partners to productionize AI

Qualifications

Hands-on experience building applications or systems using large language models and generative AI.
Experience designing and implementing AI agents or agentic workflows.
Strong programming experience in Python and/or another modern language.
Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, enterprise applications, databases, and external tools.
Experience with one or more agent frameworks or orchestration approaches.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and integrate AI agents and multi-agent workflows using modern LLM and agentic technologies.
Develop agent capabilities that interact with enterprise applications, APIs, data sources, developer tools, and mission systems.
Integrate models, agents, tools, and enterprise data into secure workflows for controlled environments.
Work with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, tool calling, structured outputs, and related tech.
Prototype and evaluate emerging models and agent frameworks to identify mission value.
Develop evaluation frameworks for agent accuracy, reliability, safety, latency, and cost.