Senior AI Software Engineer - Remote LLM & AI Apps

General Dynamics IT; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to build AI applications and agents for federal cloud platforms. You will collaborate with platform, DevOps, and security engineers to deliver secure, reliable AI capabilities in a remote environment.

The ideal candidate will design, develop, and integrate software using LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and AI agents, with hands-on Python, API integration, containers, and CI/CD experience. This role is remote nationwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering, including 1+ year building LLM-based applications.
• 5+ years of AI or ML application development, including 2+ years with LLMs.
• Experience with agent frameworks, such as LangGraph, LangChain, Strands Agents, or CrewAI.
• Strong Python skills, with experience building APIs and backend services, and with Git, automated testing, and code review.
• Experience with major model providers, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure AI, or Amazon Bedrock.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy LLM-based applications and agents, including APIs, backend services, tool calling, structured outputs, and multi‑step workflows.
• Build RAG and document processing pipelines covering ingestion, embeddings, vector search, and reranking.
• Build evaluation into every release with test datasets, regression tests, quality metrics, and human review.
• Work with platform and DevOps engineers to run solutions in production using CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Work with security engineers on access control, audit logging, PII handling, approval steps for AI actions, and federal authorization (ATO) documentation.
• Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Advise stakeholders, communicate technical tradeoffs and recommended approaches to technical and non‑technical audiences, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence Software

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Machine Learning Methods

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

Job description

General Dynamics IT is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to build AI applications and agents for federal cloud platforms. You will collaborate with platform, DevOps, and security engineers to deliver secure, reliable AI capabilities in a remote environment.

The ideal candidate will design, develop, and integrate software using LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and AI agents, with hands-on Python, API integration, containers, and CI/CD experience. This role is remote nationwide.