Senior AI Engineer - LLMs & Agentic Systems Leader

Parsons; Maryland; On-site; USD 158,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class benefits

Flexible work schedules

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an AI Engineer to provide technical advisory support for the design, evaluation, and advancement of AI-enabled applications and workflows for government use cases.

You will assess LLM-based solutions, guide architectures and toolchains, and collaborate with platform engineers, mission users, and leadership to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable AI capabilities. An active TS SCI w/ Polygraph clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active TS SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• 18+ years with a Bachelor's or 15+ years with a Master's in CS, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience designing, building, integrating, or evaluating AI/ML-enabled applications or software tools.
• Familiarity with modern AI patterns including LLMs, RAG, prompts, agentic systems, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Experience with APIs, data handling, and system integration; ability to communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide SETA support to government teams developing or assessing AI-enabled applications and tools.
• Advise on technical approaches for AI design, prototyping, integration, and evaluation.
• Assess solutions involving LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, and orchestration layers.
• Review architectures, development approaches, model usage patterns, and technical risk areas.
• Advise on AI engineering considerations such as latency, reliability, observability, and testability.
• Stay current on AI ecosystem changes and provide recommendations on emerging tools and practices.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, product leads, mission users, and government leadership to stay grounded and relevant.
• Support test and evaluation activities for AI tools, including performance assessment and workflow validation.

Skills

AI/ML development

Agentic frameworks

APIs & integration

Technical advisory

Technical communication

Security clearance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Master's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Haystack

LlamaIndex

Job description

Parsons is seeking an AI Engineer to provide technical advisory support for the design, evaluation, and advancement of AI-enabled applications and workflows for government use cases.

You will assess LLM-based solutions, guide architectures and toolchains, and collaborate with platform engineers, mission users, and leadership to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable AI capabilities. An active TS SCI w/ Polygraph clearance is required.