Senior AI Full Stack Engineer

PRECISE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Training and development

Job summary

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior AI Full Stack Engineer to lead a Generative AI program for federal government work. You will build, test, deploy, and operate secure AI-enabled apps, owning core build, test, and pipeline deliverables.

You will work hands-on across the full stack—from UI to APIs, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows—while leading AI security testing and acting as senior escalation for production issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or related field with 5+ years of experience.
• 5+ years hands-on AI/ML engineering, including AI-enabled apps and pipelines.
• 1+ year experience with Generative AI, LLM integration, RAG, or production AI systems.
• Strong Python proficiency for AI-enabled apps, APIs, services, and automation.
• Experience designing and deploying RAG pipelines, vector databases, cloud AI services, and AI workflow orchestration.
• Knowledge of AI testing, Responsible AI practices, and security controls in secure enterprise or federal cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, deploy, and enhance AI-enabled apps, services, and UIs.
• Build and maintain LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and AI workflows.
• Implement prompt and context engineering, model orchestration, and grounding validation.
• Ensure AI-enabled applications meet Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 A and AA accessibility requirements.
• Plan and oversee unit, integration, functional, regression, performance, accessibility, and security testing.
• Support MLOps workflows, including model versioning, drift detection, and releases.
• Provide Tier 2/3 escalation support for production incidents.

Skills

Python

AI/ML engineering

Full stack

APIs

Cloud engineering

LLM integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Description

Position Summary

Precise Software Solutions Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Full Stack Engineer to serve as the lead technical executor for a Generative AI engineering program supporting the federal government. You will build, integrate, test, deploy, and operate secure AI-enabled applications, and you will own the program's core build, test, and pipeline deliverables.

You will work hands-on across the full stack, from accessible user interfaces to APIs, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows, and you will lead AI security testing and serve as the senior escalation point for production issues.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
• Must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and be able to work on-site at DC Government offices.
• Must be able to pass and maintain a Government background investigation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, deploy, and enhance AI-enabled applications, services, and user interfaces.
• Build and maintain LLM integrations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, embeddings, vector search, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled automation.
• Implement prompt and context engineering, structured outputs, model orchestration, and retrieval quality controls such as chunking, hybrid retrieval, relevance scoring, and grounding validation.
• Ensure AI-enabled applications and interfaces meet security, privacy, and Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 A and AA accessibility requirements.

Evaluation, Testing, and AI Security

• Implement model evaluation, hallucination reduction, retrieval quality tuning, monitoring, and performance optimization, including side-by-side comparisons for model upgrades.
• Plan and oversee unit, integration, functional, regression, performance, load, accessibility, adversarial, model-quality, and user acceptance testing.
• Conduct AI-specific security and adversarial testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data poisoning, unsafe output, unauthorized disclosure) before each release, and document and mitigate findings.
• Maintain the RAG knowledge-base refresh schedule and elevate any retrieval-relevance decline.

DevSecOps, MLOps, and Releases

• Enforce promotion controls across environments, including security scans, unit tests, and TEVV gates, with secrets kept in Government-furnished vaults.
• Support MLOps workflows, including model versioning, drift detection, retraining, and release documentation.
• Prepare release packages and Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and support ATO, security assessment, and vulnerability remediation activities.

Operations and Support

• Serve as a Tier 2 / Tier 3 helpdesk escalation resource, reachable within business hours and providing escalation support for critical and high-severity incidents.
• Support production operations, root-cause analysis, issue triage, and continuous improvement.

Deliverables You Will Own

• AI/RAG Pipeline Designs; AI System Test Plans; Configuration Management Plan; Evaluation and Adversarial Testing Reports; Software Bills of Materials; and co-authorship of the AI Security Certification Package.

Team Leadership

• Conduct code and prompt reviews, mentor developers, and act as the primary technical backup for the Lead AI Engineer.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, or a related scientific/technical discipline and 5+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, AI-enabled application development, data engineering, cloud engineering, or software engineering, including direct development, integration, testing, and operational support of AI-enabled systems.
• 1+ year of hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLM integration, RAG, model evaluation, agentic AI, or production AI systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing AI-enabled applications, APIs, services, and automation.
• Experience designing and deploying RAG pipelines, semantic retrieval, vector databases, cloud-based AI services, and AI workflow orchestration.
• Knowledge of AI testing, model evaluation, Responsible AI practices, and AI security controls in secure enterprise or federal cloud environments.
• Experience conducting AI-specific and adversarial testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data poisoning) and documenting mitigations.
• Experience developing AI-enabled user interfaces that conform to Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 A and AA.
• Experience supporting release management, documentation, monitoring, and operational support.
• At least one current Generative AI or Machine Learning certification, such as Microsoft Azure AI, AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks, NVIDIA, or CAIP, or an equivalent.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
• Must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and be able to work on-site at Government offices.
• Must be able to pass and maintain a Government background investigation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field and 7+ years of experience, including federal agency programs.
• Experience with a modern front-end framework (e.g., React or Angular with TypeScript) and with containers (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel), MCP, and open-weight model serving (e.g., vLLM, TGI).
• Experience in FedRAMP High or GovCloud environments and with SBOM formats (CycloneDX or SPDX).
• Experience with AI-assisted accessibility remediation or document processing (OCR, PDF tagging).
• A current, favorably adjudicated federal background investigation.

ABOUT US

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. is a mission-focused technology services company delivering secure digital platforms, infrastructure, and operational IT services to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3-appraised company, Precise partners with agency technology leaders and solution providers to design, build, operate, and modernize enterprise IT solutions that support critical public missions combining agility, innovation, and performance to deliver measurable results.

Precise specializes in cloud and hybrid infrastructure, platform engineering, security operations and compliance, application modernization, and data platforms and analytics. The company is known for its agile, delivery-driven approach and innovative engineering practices, applying operational rigor and performance-focused execution to improve system resilience, security, and scalability across complex government environments.

BENEFITS AND PERKS

• Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
• Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Jury Duty leave
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Training and Development
• Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
• Employee Referral Program
• Annual Charity Donation Match
• Awards and Recognition

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Precise Software Solutions is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We expect every member of the Precise community to do their part to cultivate and maintain an environment where everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.