Steampunk, Inc.

Steampunk, Inc.

Senior AI Developer

McLean, VA, US · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$190kDetected 1 day ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMsRAGLLMOpsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingCybersecurityCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Contribute to internal AI frameworks, code patterns, and shared accelerators that raise delivery quality across the AI & Data Exploitation Practice.
  • Stay current with emerging AI techniques, libraries, foundation models, and agent frameworks, evaluating their applicability to client missions.
  • You will contribute to the growth of our AI & Data Exploitation Practice!

Responsibilities

  • Overview We are looking for a highly skilled Senior AI Developer to design, build, and optimize advanced AI solutions across predictive, generative, and autonomous system domains.
  • Contributions Develop end-to-end AI solutions including LLM-powered applications, predictive ML models, multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and specialized AI microservices.
  • Implement reusable AI components, libraries, and APIs that streamline application development and accelerate delivery across programs.
  • Integrate AI models with enterprise systems, APIs, data platforms, vector databases, and cloud-native services to deliver scalable mission capabilities.
  • Drive iterative experimentation, prototyping, and model improvement cycles in collaboration with Data Scientists and AI Evaluation Scientists.
  • Design and implement advanced prompt strategies, context management layers, retrieval systems, and LLM orchestration logic.
  • Build scalable inference services, optimize model performance, and collaborate with LLMOps to enable robust deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Implement secure-by-design and trustworthy AI practices, including safety guardrails, input sanitization, content filtering, and integration of evaluation metrics.
  • Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and support engineering excellence across multi-disciplinary AI delivery teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and develop production-grade AI applications, including APIs, back-end services, orchestration logic, and front-end integrations (when needed).

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including compute, serverless services, and security fundamentals for AI workloads.
  • Experience with structured and unstructured data, document processing, and application integration with existing enterprise systems.

Compensation

  • About steampunk Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience.

Benefits

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • About steampunk Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience.

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