Remote Agentic AI Software Engineer

Description:

• The position is for an Agentic AI Engineer at Whitespace, which is a remote role based in Alexandria, VA.
• The candidate must be eligible for clearance and must be a U.S. citizen residing in the contiguous United States.
• The role involves creating AI-powered analysis and simulation using the Iris platform to enhance mission performance.
• The engineer will focus on building intelligent, tool-using agents that can navigate complex environments, identify problems, and reason about remediation paths.
• Responsibilities include architecting, developing, and deploying advanced autonomous AI agents, defining intelligent agent systems for real-time decision-making, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• The engineer will mentor engineering teams, evaluate and enhance agentic systems, and promote engineering best practices.

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field with at least 5 years of related experience is required; experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with libraries and frameworks such as FastAPI, asyncio, and PyTorch is necessary.
• Experience with Agentic Frameworks and tools like LangChain, AutoGPT, and Semantic Kernel is required.
• Proven experience in developing and deploying robust AI/ML solutions, particularly with autonomous agents, is essential.
• Direct experience integrating generative AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, LLaMA) into practical systems is needed.
• The candidate must have the ability to design scalable, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Extensive experience in prompt engineering and fine-tuning LLM models is required.
• Knowledge of grounding generative models with external knowledge sources is necessary.
• Familiarity with MLOps principles and tools for model deployment and monitoring is required.
• Understanding of security implications and mitigation strategies for generative AI and agentic systems is essential.
• Excellent collaboration, mentorship, and communication skills are required to work effectively with distributed teams.

Benefits:

• The position offers medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Employees receive unlimited PTO and paid leave for federal holidays.
• There is a provision for 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• The employer pays for short-term and long-term disability insurance as well as life insurance.
• A 401K plan with employer matching is available.
• Professional development assistance is provided.
• Employees can participate in an equity incentive plan.