# Senior Platform Engineer (FedD239)

Senior Platform Engineer AI Engineering | Forward Deployed Engineering Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior AI Agentic Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem. This role will focus on designing, integrating, and operationalizing AI agents and agentic workflows within a secure enterprise environment. The engineer will work across large language models, agent frameworks, enterprise data, APIs, developer tooling, and platform services to turn AI capabilities into reliable, mission-relevant workflows. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who understands both the capabilities and limitations of modern AI systems and can rapidly translate emerging technologies into working solutions. They should be comfortable experimenting with new models and agent frameworks, integrating agents with enterprise systems and tools, evaluating performance and reliability, and working alongside platform engineers and commercial technology partners. This is not a research-only role. The focus is on moving from AI concepts and prototypes to secure, useful, repeatable agentic capabilities that can operate

- **Id**: 1472536
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/defense-unicorns-aiagentic-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Springfield, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-29T15:36:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T18:24:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10116
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Flexible time off, Home office, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Virtualization & Containers, DevSecOps

## Company

- **Id**: 8737
- **Name**: Defense Unicorns
- **Domain**: defenseunicorns.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/defense-unicorns>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 72
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.909
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 71
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 148750
- **Max**: 201250
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 201250

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OpenShift** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Confluence** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitLab** — Optional: yes
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes
- **Kustomize** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: yes
- **NVIDIA NeMo** — Optional: yes
- **NVIDIA NIM** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **Pulumi** — Optional: yes
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-29T16:59:08Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 53
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.588
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 71
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 201250
- **Is top pay**: yes

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