Senior AI Software Engineer (AI)

Location: McLean, Virginia, United States; hybrid workplace

Salary: $155,000–$200,000 annually

Company

hirify.global delivers AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and modernization solutions for federal agencies, supporting national security, health, and humanitarian missions.

What you will do

• Design, develop, prototype, and refine generative AI and LLM-powered applications using retrieval, prompt and context engineering, and secure API integrations.
• Own end-to-end agentic AI development, including model selection, agent design, tool and function calling, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment.
• Build maintainable, testable, and scalable software; conduct code reviews and establish reusable technical patterns.
• Collaborate with software, data, cloud, and stakeholder teams to deliver operational AI and automation solutions for federal missions.
• Automate secure deployments with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and cloud-native services.
• Monitor and optimize production AI systems, document implementations, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical standards and design reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including production or production-like AI/ML, generative AI, or LLM solution delivery.
• Experience with LLM applications, tool and function calling, model evaluation, prompt and context engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Experience designing agentic AI solutions with platforms or frameworks such as Bedrock Agents, CrewAI, LangChain, LangGraph, Mastra, Strands, or AgentCore.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Python, plus familiarity with relevant testing, application, and AI libraries.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a DoD Secret clearance are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to data engineering, data science, UI/UX, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
• Knowledge of federal cybersecurity, RMF, FedRAMP, or related regulatory frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI solutions supporting defense and health agencies.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; retirement plans; life insurance; and disability coverage.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, public holidays, and family leave.
• Training and development resources plus wellness programs.