Senior Frontier AI Systems Architect

Phase2 Technology; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 128,700 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive architectural rigor and the engineering execution behind Frontier Research prototypes and integrations. You will design, build, and validate advanced AI systems across the full stack, translating frontier concepts into working platforms.

This senior role provides day-to-day technical leadership, conducts design reviews, and raises the technical bar across the Applied Research team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in deep technical engineering.
• Experience designing and building advanced AI systems, including managing them.
• Experience developing AI prototypes, products, or high‑visibility technical demonstrations
• Experience leading technical exchanges and evaluations with commercial partners and executive stakeholders
• Experience with translating research into scalable, revenue‑generating solutions
• Experience guiding R&D efforts from concept through implementation
• Ability to create and drive technical roadmaps aligned with organizational goals
• Ability to display high creativity, intellectual curiosity, and enthusiasm for showcasing innovative AI capabilities
• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging advancements across hyperscalers, leading AI labs, academia, and venture‑backed companies.
• Conduct hands‑on technical assessments, benchmarks, and proof‑of‑concepts to validate applicability and performance.
• Own the technical delivery of end‑to‑end AI systems spanning infrastructure, frontier LLMs, agentic and multi‑agent applications and physical AI pipelines.
• Deliver working systems—not slideware.
• Work with business units, to support hands‑on integration of emerging AI technologies in complex customer environments such as cloud, hybrid, edge, or disconnected.
• Ensure production rigor without sacrificing innovation speed.
• Provide day‑to‑day technical leadership to engineers and researchers.
• Conduct design reviews, guide architectural decisions, and raise the overall technical bar of the Applied Research team.
• Convert prototype learnings into reusable frameworks, reference architectures, accelerators, and technical artifacts that scale across programs and business units.

Skills

Deep technical engineering

AI systems design

AI prototypes

Executive stakeholder management

R&D leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Doctorate preferred

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive architectural rigor and the engineering execution behind Frontier Research prototypes and integrations. You will design, build, and validate advanced AI systems across the full stack, translating frontier concepts into working platforms.

This senior role provides day-to-day technical leadership, conducts design reviews, and raises the technical bar across the Applied Research team.