Software Engineer I, AI Focus | TS/SCI Clearance

Bitwise; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 198,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top salaries

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Education assistance

401(k) match

Employer-paid insurance

Job summary

Bitwise is seeking an engineer to develop and refine software that integrates cutting-edge AI capabilities into critical workflows, supporting analysts and operators who depend on intelligent tools to accomplish their missions.

You'll work under senior engineers to build agentic integrations using Python, APIs, and data sources, collaborating with teammates to test, present findings to customers, and ensure stable, production-ready tools.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or 4+ years of relevant technical work in lieu of a bachelor's degree).
• B.S. in a technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
• Proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience handling JSON, REST APIs, and data manipulation.
• Experience leveraging HTTP-based APIs to access data through queries.
• Understanding of AI development concepts, including prompt engineering, context management, structured outputs, and tool/function calling.
• Familiarity with software source control (Git) and the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence).
• Active TS//SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Experience with agentic workflows and multi-agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with production CNO capabilities and operations.
• Background in cybersecurity or understanding of security operations workflows.
• Familiarity with retrieval systems (RAG, vector databases, semantic search).
• Familiarity with cloud computing technologies (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based agentic integrations and build tools within modern frameworks like PydanticAI, LangGraph, and DeepAgents.
• Navigate complex customer data ecosystems to identify and extract relevant information, then integrate those findings with external APIs and MCP tools.
• Collaborate with software engineers to test workflows, identify issues, and propose fixes; present data analysis results to customers.
• Ensure AI tools remain stable, reliable, and seamlessly integrated into the customer's existing toolset, under mentorship.

Skills

Python

JSON

REST APIs

Data manipulation

Prompt engineering

Agentic workflows

Multi-agent orchestration

Git

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TS/SCI clearance

Communication with customers

Education

B.S. in a technical discipline

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Bitwise is seeking an engineer to develop and refine software that integrates cutting-edge AI capabilities into critical workflows, supporting analysts and operators who depend on intelligent tools to accomplish their missions.

You'll work under senior engineers to build agentic integrations using Python, APIs, and data sources, collaborating with teammates to test, present findings to customers, and ensure stable, production-ready tools.