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This role requires strong hands-on engineering capabilities, deep familiarity with modern AI architectures, and the ability to translate mission needs into robust, production-ready AI capabilities. The Senior AI Developer will work across the full stack of AI development, from data ingestion and model experimentation to application integration, orchestration, and deployment, and will collaborate closely with product teams, LLMOps engineers, designers, and mission stakeholders.\nContributions\nDevelop end-to-end AI solutions including LLM-powered applications, predictive ML models, multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and specialized AI microservices.\nImplement reusable AI components, libraries, and APIs that streamline application development and accelerate delivery across programs.\nIntegrate AI models with enterprise systems, APIs, data platforms, vector databases, and cloud-native services to deliver scalable mission capabilities.\nDrive iterative experimentation, prototyping, and model improvement cycles in collaboration with Data Scientists and AI Evaluation Scientists.\nDesign and implement advanced prompt strategies, context management layers, retrieval systems, and LLM orchestration logic.\nBuild scalable inference services, optimize model performance, and collaborate with LLMOps to enable robust deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.\nTranslate user needs and mission workflows into intuitive, reliable AI-powered features through active partnership with designers and product teams.\nImplement secure-by-design and trustworthy AI practices, including safety guardrails, input sanitization, content filtering, and integration of evaluation metrics.\nContribute to internal AI frameworks, code patterns, and shared accelerators that raise delivery quality across the AI & Data Exploitation Practice.\nMentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and support engineering excellence across multi-disciplinary AI delivery teams.\nStay current with emerging AI techniques, libraries, foundation models, and agent frameworks, evaluating their applicability to client missions.\nYou will contribute to the growth of our AI & Data Exploitation Practice!\nQualifications\nAbility to hold a position of public trust with the U.S. government.\nBachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, or a related field.\n5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on AI/ML, generative AI, or LLM-driven application development.\nStrong proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar.\nDemonstrated ability to design and develop production-grade AI applications, including APIs, back-end services, orchestration logic, and front-end integrations (when needed).\nExperience implementing RAG architectures, embeddings, vector stores, and context retrieval patterns.\nFamiliarity with multi-agent orchestration frameworks, prompt engineering strategies, and advanced LLM interaction design.\nStrong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including compute, serverless services, and security fundamentals for AI workloads.\nWorking knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines for AI-based systems.\nExperience with structured and unstructured data, document processing, and application integration with existing enterprise systems.\nUnderstanding of responsible AI principles including safety, fairness, privacy, and model risk mitigation.\nStrong analytical and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, design, and mission domains.\nProven experience mentoring teammates and raising the technical bar of development teams.\nAbout steampunk\nSteampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $140,000 to $190,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.\nIdentity Statement\nAs part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.\nSteampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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