Senior AI/ML Engineer — Agentic Systems & MLOps

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Software Engineer to advance agentic AI systems and production‑grade AI solutions in a cloud analytics setting. You will design and implement MCP‑based integrations, work with LangChain/LlamaIndex, and mentor developers across cross‑functional teams.

You will translate complex requirements into scalable AI workflows, ensure robust CI/CD practices, and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deploy secure, governance‑driven AI capabilities across cloud

Qualifications

• Software engineering background with production‑grade apps
• Experience building agentic AI systems (planning, tool-use, multi‑step reasoning)
• Hands‑on MCP‑based integrations, tool interfaces, or model‑driven service frameworks
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable AI solutions
• LLM development practices incl. fine‑tuning, RAG, prompts, and agent workflows
• Strong Python development and familiarity with distributed compute, APIs, microservices, cloud‑native architectures
• Experience integrating agents/LLM components into cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) or large‑scale data ecosystems
• Understanding of LLMOps/MLOps: versioning, testing, deployment automation, monitoring, governance
• Lead solution design, mentor developers, communicate AI architectures to stakeholders
• Version control and CI/CD (Git/GitHub), automated testing, deployment pipelines, release management

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate AI/LLM proof‑of‑concepts in cloud analytics environments
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design integrations and demos
• Build scalable data workflows and governed MLOps practices
• Communicate platform updates to technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Skills

Agentic AI systems development

Python development

LLM deployment & MLOps

Cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP)

MCP-based integrations design

CI/CD & GitHub

Distributed compute & microservices

Mentoring developers

Stakeholder communication

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related

MS/MA in related field

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Databricks

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Software Engineer to advance agentic AI systems and production‑grade AI solutions in a cloud analytics setting. You will design and implement MCP‑based integrations, work with LangChain/LlamaIndex, and mentor developers across cross‑functional teams.

You will translate complex requirements into scalable AI workflows, ensure robust CI/CD practices, and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deploy secure, governance‑driven AI capabilities across cloud