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BUT IS DEPENDENT UPON THE CANDIDATE’S SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONSSoft Tech offers competitive BENEFITS in the areas of: MEDICAL, DENTAL, VISION, 401K, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, PTO, AND PAID HOLIDAYS\nSoft Tech Consulting is seeking an AI Senior Software Engineer with strong technical acumen, creativity, and problem-solving ability to design, implement, and optimize AI-powered solutions built on modern agentic frameworks. In this role, you will develop intelligent workflows using foundation models (e.g., Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, etc.), configure multi-agent systems, integrate AI with enterprise applications and data systems, and iteratively tune and evaluate agent behavior to deliver reliable, real-world outcomes.\nThe selected candidate will collaborate closely with a community of generative AI specialists, software engineers, data scientists, solution architects, cybersecurity experts, and product owners to deliver innovative, production-ready AI systems that transform our clients’ ecosystems and reinvent the way they operate.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and optimize agentic AI systems using orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, Google ADK, or AWS Bedrock AgentCore, etc.\nImplement multi-step, tool-enabled AI agentic workflows that combine LLM reasoning, RAG, retrieval systems, external APIs, and custom enterprise tools.\nUse leading foundation models (Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, , etc.) on Amazon Bedrock to build capabilities including structured generation, extraction, summarization, planning, and decision support.\nIteratively tune and refine AI workflows through prompt engineering, instruction design, agent configuration, and tool-use optimization.\nConduct structured testing and evaluation of AI behavior, including regression tests, scenario-based evaluations, synthetic test creation, and model-to-model comparisons.\nDiagnose issues such as hallucinations, retrieval mismatches, tool-use errors, or unexpected agent behavior, and implement corrective strategies including guardrails and workflow adjustments.\nIntegrate AI components with vector databases, graph databases, internal applications, and other infrastructure tools-working alongside engineers who manage the underlying systems.\nDocument model usage patterns, agent behaviors, experimental findings, workflow designs, and best practices for reproducibility and maintainability.\nCollaborate with cybersecurity and governance teams to ensure AI implementations adhere to required policies and safe-use guidelines.\nQualifications\nREQUIRED:\nTop Secret Cleared.\nBachelor's Degree.\nMinimum 7-10 years of related experience.\nAbility to iteratively tune, evaluate, and validate AI workflows, including refining prompts, agent configurations, tool-calling patterns, and retrieval strategies.\nExperience designing and running structured tests for AI behavior such as regression tests, scenario-based evaluations, synthetic testing, and model comparisons.\nSkills in diagnosing and correcting AI system failures, including hallucinations, retrieval issues, or tool-use errors, and implementing guardrails or workflow adjustments.\nDocuments and maintains AI models, agent behaviors, experiments, and workflow designs.\nProficient in data modeling and familiar with AWS Bedrock services.\nProficiency in Python; familiarity with JavaScript or other languages beneficial.\nComfortable working with CI/CD and Git-based development workflows.\nExperience integrating observability tools into AI application workflows (logging, metrics, traces).\nExperience with AI Agents & Workflow Integration (Advanced).\nExperience with AI Prompting (Advanced).\nPython Software Development (Advanced).\nAWS AI Services (Advanced).\nExperience with AI Architecture (Advanced).\nMust be able to communicate effectively, both verbal and written.\nMust be able to work independently, with minimal oversight.\nAble to develop strong client relationships.\nPREFERRED\nMaster's in Computer Science (Preferred)\nAbout Us\nSoft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. 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