AI Software Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$86,800–$198,000 / yr
Posted
17 days ago
Closes
Aug 17, 2026

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $198k
This role $142k
$69k most similar roles pay here $253k

This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $160,100–$235,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $142k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting

Booz Allen Hamilton currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 682 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · AI Software Engineer

Join our team as an experienced AI/ML Software Development Engineer, supporting the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to accelerate health outcomes through advanced research and development. You will conceptualize, create, and execute cutting-edge programs, providing strategic assessments of new technologies to senior decision-makers while managing current initiatives and facilitating commercialization. Your daily tasks include owning backend and infrastructure components on Azure, building resilient CI/CD pipelines, implementing agentic communication patterns, and ensuring robust LLM orchestration across multiple models. You will also maintain end-to-end observability for workflows, champion user-focused design, and uphold privacy compliance standards. Ideal candidates have 7+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on production systems, expertise in Azure technologies, and proficiency in Python and other backend languages. Experience in healthcare or security-conscious environments is a plus.

What you'll do

  • Own and operate backend and infrastructure components for an AI/ML model on Azure.
  • Build and maintain resilient CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and secrets management.
  • Implement and maintain infrastructure as code for all environments; own CI/CD pipelines.
  • Manage cost and token economics across all LLM providers, analyzing budgets and optimizations.
  • Lead agentic and protocol infrastructure, including MCP backend implementation on Azure.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including production system management
  • Expertise in Azure technologies (Functions, API Management, Container Apps, OpenAI Service)
  • Proficiency in backend languages and modern frameworks, distributed systems
  • Experience with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
  • Knowledge of authentication systems and identity protocols like OAuth2, OIDC
  • Ability to own complex production systems and write postmortem analyses
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering required

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