# Data & AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem. This role will focus on designing, building, and integrating agentic AI capabilities that allow AI models to interact with tools, access enterprise data, execute multi-step workflows, and support mission applications. The engineer will work across LLM integration, agent orchestration, APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and the interfaces between AI applications and existing software platforms. The ideal candidate is a hands-on software engineer with demonstrated experience building agentic AI applications. They should be comfortable entering an evolving architecture, learning unfamiliar systems quickly, working directly with commercial technology partners, and solving difficult problems involving integration, reliability, performance, and security. This is not a traditional AI research or model development role. The focus is on building reliable, repeatable agentic capabilities that move beyond experimentation into working software in secure and classified environments. Responsibilities Design

- **Id**: 4049471
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/defense-unicorns-data-ai-engineer-agentic-systems>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Springfield, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T21:01:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:18:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8505
- **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**: 74
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 69
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OpenShift** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **CrewAI** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes
- **Kustomize** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **Pulumi** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:18:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T02:39:52Z

## Pay

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

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