Senior AI Agent Engineer - Secure Govt Workflows (Remote)

Frontdoor Defense; Springfield (VA); Remote; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, implement, and operationalize secure AI agent workflows for government engineering teams. You will work across LLMs, agent frameworks, APIs, and enterprise data to deliver repeatable, production-ready capabilities in a secure environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with platform engineers and commercial tech partners to ensure reliable, mission-relevant AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and generative AI.
• Experience designing AI agents or workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python or another modern language.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and integrate AI agents and multi-agent workflows.
• Develop agent capabilities that interact with enterprise apps, data sources, and APIs.
• Integrate models, agents, tools, and data into secure workflows.

Skills

Large language models

Agent frameworks

Python

CI/CD

Kubernetes/OpenShift

APIs integration

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

NVIDIA NeMo

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, implement, and operationalize secure AI agent workflows for government engineering teams. You will work across LLMs, agent frameworks, APIs, and enterprise data to deliver repeatable, production-ready capabilities in a secure environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with platform engineers and commercial tech partners to ensure reliable, mission-relevant AI workloads.