Senior Agentic AI Engineer for GenAI Platform

MANTECH; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH is seeking a motivated Artificial Intelligence Engineer to join our team in Washington, D.C. The role focuses on building, integrating, and extending agentic AI capabilities for defense and federal use cases.

You will work with cloud-based infrastructures, GenAI foundations, and RAG enhancements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions that align with security and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• 15+ years experience with 12 years of cloud experience, or a Master’s degree with 10 years of cloud experience.
• Familiar with generative AI engineering tools, vector databases, Python AI libraries, and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel) and cloud-native automation.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and extend core frameworks by interfacing with the FBI's AI Tool and architecting modular AI solutions.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code to rapidly compose, configure, and test agentic systems in cloud enclaves or hardware footprints.
• Deploy Generative AI and foundation models to deliver scalable, extensible frameworks across multiple use cases.
• Engineer RAG store capabilities, integrating authoritative repositories to guard against AI slop and enforce guardrails.
• Enhance prototype logic to support automated security control reviews and improve SCA/ISSM assessment pass rates.
• Deliver tooling to shift security left and reduce missed security features prior to SAA processes.
• Configure authoring agents enabling cross-functional teams to draft security control statements from existing docs and best practices.

Job description

MANTECH is seeking a motivated Artificial Intelligence Engineer to join our team in Washington, D.C. The role focuses on building, integrating, and extending agentic AI capabilities for defense and federal use cases.

You will work with cloud-based infrastructures, GenAI foundations, and RAG enhancements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions that align with security and compliance requirements.