[Hiring] AI Engineer @JFL Consulting LLC

Role Description

The AI Engineer – Agentic Orchestration is a senior back-end engineer supporting a pilot program that is re-platforming capabilities onto an enterprise AI platform to deliver predictive, decision-grade decision-making capabilities to the customer. The primary responsibility for this role is architecting, building, and maintaining the production API integrations and data-pipeline components that flow data from disparate sources into the program’s Common Operating Picture (COP), and orchestrating the agentic AI workflows that operate on that data. The engineer implements and versions robust interface contracts, builds high-throughput pipeline components that keep the COP reliable and current, writes rigorous integration and contract tests, tunes performance and reliability under heavy operational load, and authors clear technical documentation for long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required.
• Clearance: Active Secret clearance.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field; or equivalent relevant experience.
• 8+ years of professional back-end or API integration engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, versioning, and operating production APIs and data pipelines that other teams depend on.
• Experience building or integrating LLM-based or agentic AI workflows (tool calling, orchestration frameworks, retrieval, evaluation) in a production or prototype setting.
• Experience delivering software on Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or other federal programs in cloud-hosted, security-controlled environments is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Expert-level Python.
• Deep experience with REST and GraphQL API design and OpenAPI specifications, including interface versioning and backward-compatibility strategies.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or comparable streaming/event platforms.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry (pipelines, ontology, data integration) is highly desired.
• Experience deploying and operating services in AWS GovCloud (or comparable IL5/IL6 cloud environments).
• Strong understanding of enterprise authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, SAML, PKI/CAC, RBAC/ABAC).
• Familiarity with agentic AI tooling and patterns (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or custom orchestration; function/tool calling; RAG; prompt and workflow versioning; model evaluation).
• Proficiency with integration and contract testing, CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Working knowledge of secure software development practices and NIST SP 800-53 / 800-171 controls as they apply to application and data-pipeline design.

Benefits

• Salary: $160k - $190k
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
• Flexible Spending Accounts (healthcare, dependent care, and commuter)
• Life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability
• 401(k) with immediate vesting of company contribution
• Generous PTO policy (15 vacation, 5 sick, 2 personal days, 11 holidays)
• Support for growth through certification reimbursement, dedicated professional development funding, and company-provided access to online learning platforms