NextGen Federal Systems
Application/Agentic AI Engineer
Aberdeen, Maryland
No sponsorshipDetected 61 days ago
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About the role
- It combines AI agents, workflow orchestration, grounded knowledge, testing frameworks, and enterprise controls into a single collaborative workspace.
- Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
Responsibilities
- Partner with customer SMEs and operational stakeholders to translate mission workflows and operational requirements into agentic AI solutions, including intelligent agents, workflow specialists, guardrails, tools, and validation frameworks.
- Design, develop, and maintain agent definitions and configurations, including objectives, behavioral instructions, input/output contracts, safety policies, operational constraints, and tool utilization rules.
- Develop workflow-specific AI specialists and reusable agent patterns to support operational and enterprise use cases while maintaining clear functional boundaries and scalable architectures.
- Build and maintain comprehensive AI testing and evaluation suites, including gold-standard input/output validation, adversarial testing, guardrail validation, scope-boundary testing, tool-use validation, regression testing, and multi-turn conversational testing.
- Analyze failed, degraded, or stale agent test results to identify performance gaps, tune agent behavior, improve reliability, and document updates across agent versions and releases.
- Develop reusable templates, workflow examples, implementation guides, and best-practice documentation to enable scalable and consistent customer development of agentic AI solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure AI-enabled capabilities align with mission objectives, security requirements, and operational constraints.
- Experience developing applications using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or similar modern programming languages.
- Experience developing operational workflows using AI agents, automation pipelines, or decision-support systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, or AI/ML integration.
- Experience integrating APIs, microservices, and data services into enterprise or operational applications.
- Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, AI orchestration frameworks, or agentic AI concepts.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies and containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git-based version control and collaborative development workflows.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Active Security Clearance is required
- Experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with AI model deployment, inference optimization, and scalable AI architecture.
Company info
- Treat employees with fairness and respect regardless of their position, sexual identity, race, or tenure.
- Communicate the importance of our mission and our employees' contributions to it, ensuring they understand how their job role contributes to the greater good.
- Openly promote and communicate our ideas for change and adaptability.
- Strive to achieve results as an organization.
- Hold employees accountable to their commitments and provide incentives that encourage positive and productive behaviors.
- Value the talents and contributions of our employees as the key factor for our success.
- Create an environment where people can engage at all levels.
- Encourage people to take risks and allow them to make mistakes.
- NextGen Federal Systems is an innovative technology and professional services provider specializing in advanced software solutions and comprehensive mission and business support services.
- We work in close collaboration with our customers to truly understand their business and mission goals.
Equal opportunity
- Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
- RefID: A01
Visa & Work Authorization
- Active Security Clearance is required
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