First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Title: Developer Standard I
Duration: 6 Months - Possible Extension
Location: Washington, DC (looking for local candidates)
Minimum Experience: 3 to 5 years (do not include your college period).
Hybrid Onsite: 4 days per week from Day 1, with a full transition to 100% onsite anticipated soon
Job Expectation: AI-Native Software Developer Profile (GenAI & Agentic AI, Full-Stack)
We seek developers with an AI-first engineering mindset, able to choose between deterministic code, LLMs, and agents, and to design for probabilistic outputs with robust fallback strategies while balancing cost, latency, and reliability. Core GenAI & LLM expertise includes integrating LLMs into production, prompt engineering, structured outputs, RAG pipelines, effective context management, and quality/hallucination evaluation.
Job Requirement:
Rapid solution development skills: proficiency with modern AI development platforms, APIs, and tooling to quickly prototype, iterate, and deploy functional AI capabilities into real-world systems.
Agentic AI experience: building autonomous/semi-autonomous agents with clear goals, constraints, orchestration patterns, tool-calling, state/memory handling, guardrails, and behavioural observability.
Full-stack capabilities:
Backend - API design (REST/GraphQL), secure services, data modelling, async workflows, external integrations.
Frontend - modern frameworks (e.g., React), AI-native UX (streaming responses, explainability), state management, human-AI interaction patterns.
- Cloud-native experience in containerized/microservice environments, CI/CD for AI components, secure secrets handling, cost-aware designs, and performance optimization.
Data & knowledge engineering: handling structured/unstructured data, building pipelines, preprocessing, embeddings, ranking, and versioning AI artifacts.
Focus on reliability, security, and responsible AI: safeguard sensitive data, mitigate leakage/bias/safety risks, ensure auditability, and support graceful degradation.
Excellent collaboration and communication: clear explanation of AI behaviour, cross-functional teamwork, documentation, and critical output review.
High learning agility and craftsmanship: staying current with evolving AI tools, delivering production-quality systems.

