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This role will have a particular focus on the integration and application of emerging artificial intelligence technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI capabilities, within existing and future software systems. The successful candidate will bring strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience developing and integrating production software, along with an interest in applying AI and agent-based technologies to real-world mission challenges. This individual will work across the development lifecycle-from architecture and rapid prototyping through integration, testing, containerization, deployment, and operational support. The Software Engineer will collaborate with engineering teams, Program Managers, Business Development, and government customers to translate mission needs into effective technical solutions.\nCome join the team that is creating cutting edge signal processing and geolocation systems for the future!\n\nWhat are the primary responsibilities in the Software Engineer - Agentic Systems position?\nDesign, develop, integrate, test, and maintain mission-focused software applications and services using Python and other modern programming languages. \nDesign and implement APIs, backend services, data processing components, and integrations with external systems.\nApply sound software engineering principles, including modular design, code reuse, version control, automated testing, documentation, and peer review.\nIntegrate software with APIs, databases, data platforms, enterprise services, mission systems, and third-party technologies.\nDevelop and maintain unit, integration, regression, and 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CI/CD and DevSecOps processes for building, testing, scanning, packaging, and deploying software.\nDiagnose and resolve complex technical issues across application code, integrations, containers, infrastructure, and external dependencies.\nCollaborate directly with engineers, program teams, and government customers to understand mission requirements and translate them into working software.\nStay current with emerging software and AI technologies and identify practical opportunities to incorporate them into mission solutions.\nWhat required background will make you successful?\nUS CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED\nCurrent TS/SCI Clearance\n5+ years of professional software engineering or software development experience, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.\nStrong proficiency in Python, including experience developing production-quality applications, services, or backend systems.\nExperience with one or more additional programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, 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including LLMs and agent-based software patterns.\nAbility to communicate effectively with technical teams, program leadership, and government customers.\nPreferred skills: \nHands-on experience developing or integrating AI/ML, LLM-powered, or agentic applications.\nExperience with LLM APIs and platforms and integrating model capabilities into production software.\nFamiliarity with agentic concepts such as tool/function calling, orchestration, state management, planning, memory, and multi-step workflows.\nExperience with agentic or LLM application frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or similar technologies.\nFamiliarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar approaches for connecting AI applications with tools, data, and services.\nExperience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, or knowledge retrieval.\nFamiliarity with techniques for testing and evaluating nondeterministic AI/LLM applications, including evaluation datasets, tracing, observability, and failure analysis.\nExperience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies.\nExperience with cloud platforms and cloud-native application architectures.\nFamiliarity with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging technologies, and distributed systems.\nExperience developing software for Linux-based environments.\nFamiliarity with secure software development, identity and access management, secrets management, zero-trust principles, and software supply-chain security.\nExperience transitioning prototypes or emerging technologies into operational, production-quality mission capabilities\nExperience developing, integrating, or deploying software within secure, restricted, disconnected, or controlled government environments.\nDemonstrated experience supporting U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and/or Department of Defense (DoD) customers, programs, or mission environments\n\nWhere is the position located?\nThis 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This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.\n\nWhat benefits does RRC offer?\n\n100% employer-paid premiums for family medical and dental insurance, employee life insurance, short-term and long-term disability (STD & LTD)\nFlexible reimbursement spending accounts for medical expense and dependent care\nImmediate participation and vesting in the company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and 401(k) Plan\nEmployer contributions to RRC’s ESOP\nEmployer matching contributions to the company’s 401( k) Plan\nEmployer discretionary contributions to the company’s 401(k) Plan\nRincon Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8342,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Dental insurance","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electronic Warfare","Intelligence"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-16T21:38:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.451,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":62,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/rincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/rincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T16:04:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24607,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":723177},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=723177"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/rincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frincon-research-corporation-software-engineer-agentic-systems"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":982032}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"rincon.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":982032},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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