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Principal Engineer, API & MCP Platform

Reston, VA OR Somerville, MA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$250kDetected 89 days ago
Data AnalysisAgentic AILeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • This is a hands-on, senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and delivering API-first platform capabilities that enable both developers and AI agents to interact with Babel Street's services.
  • This is a hybrid role working out of either their Reston, VA or Somerville, MA office.
  • Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage.

Responsibilities

  • You will lead the design and implementation of semantic APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and context-aware service patterns that power next-generation intelligence workflows.
  • This role requires a finger-on-keyboard engineer who can both define direction and deliver foundational systems.
  • The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world.
  • You will define and lead Babel Street's API-first platform strategy, establishing consistent patterns for service design, versioning, discoverability, and governance.

Skills

  • API descriptions optimized for agents
  • Schema consistency and semantic modeling
  • Tool and service discoverability
  • API documentation optimized for agent consumption
  • Context management and retrieval
  • Context caching
  • Session and state management
  • Memory-aware service interactions

Compensation

  • $220k-$250k

Company info

  • Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the world's most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations.
  • They deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems.
  • Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K.
  • Why this role matters:
  • This role will be instrumental to Babel Street's AI-native technology strategy.
  • The API and MCP platform will serve as the interface layer between data, AI, and product capabilities, enabling agents, developers, and systems to interact seamlessly.
  • This is a high-impact, senior technical leadership role with broad influence across the organization and the opportunity to shape the future of Babel Street's platform.
  • The position spans four core domains:
  • API Platform & Strategy
  • You will help evolve the platform toward agent-ready APIs, ensuring services are consumable by both human developers and AI agents.
  • You will establish standards for API consistency, reliability, and performance across the organization.
  • You will also work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure APIs are designed as first-class platform capabilities, not just service interfaces.
  • MCP & Agent Integration
  • You will lead Babel Street's Model Context Protocol (MCP) strategy and implementation, enabling agents and AI systems to interact with services in a standardized and scalable way.
  • This includes defining patterns for:
  • MCP service exposure
  • Tool and service discovery
  • Agent-to-service communication
  • Context-aware interactions
  • You will partner closely with AI and platform teams to enable agent-native workflows across the organization.
  • Semantic APIs & Agent-Ready Interfaces
  • You will lead the design of semantic, agent-friendly APIs, where documentation becomes a first-class interface for AI-driven systems.
  • This includes defining standards for:
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