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Collaborate with technical and functional stakeholders to develop document ingestion pipelines, retrieval workflows, and LLM-enabled capabilities that improve information discovery and decision support. Design and implement processes for metadata extraction, semantic chunking, relationship extraction, and structured knowledge generation across multiple data sources and document types. Develop, test, and refine prompt engineering, retrieval, and orchestration workflows to support rapid prototyping efforts. Integrate AI-enabled solutions with cloud-based services, databases, and enterprise applications. Support the evaluation and implementation of emerging AI technologies and contribute to the expansion of new use cases across the platform.\nYou Have\n2+ years of experience developing software applications using Python\n\nExperience developing AI-enabled applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or prompt engineering\n\nExperience working within Agile software development environments.\n\nAbility to obtain a Secret clearance\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems\n\nNice If You Have\nExperience developing data ingestion, transformation, or processing pipelines, and working with structured and unstructured data sources\n\nExperience implementing semantic chunking strategies for large document collections\n\nExperience extracting metadata, entities, relationships, or knowledge graphs from unstructured documents\n\nExperience using vector databases, such as OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, or FAISS, semantic search technologies, or embedding models\n\nExperience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or similar AI orchestration frameworks\n\nExperience with AWS services supporting AI, analytics, and data processing workloads, and developing AI-enabled knowledge management, search, automation, or decision-support solutions\n\nExperience with OCR, document processing, and multi-format document ingestion pipelines\n\nExperience evaluating, benchmarking, and optimizing LLM performance, and working with graph databases, knowledge graphs, ontology-driven systems, or relationship extraction frameworks\n\nExperience supporting rapid prototyping efforts and transitioning prototypes into production-ready solutions\n\nExperience supporting Department of Defense or federal clients\n\nClearance:\nApplicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.\nCompensation\nAt Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.\nSalary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.Identity Statement\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. 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