Leidos
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.
AI Engineer
AI EngineerMachine Learning EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 10,001+Since 1969H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
32 days ago
Salary
$69.6K - $125.7K / year
Bachelor Degree2 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsDockerJava ScriptKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactType ScriptVmware
Job Description
• Collaborate closely with Agentic AI Scientists and product teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI systems that automate and optimize labor-intensive workflows while enabling the human workforce with new, AI-powered capabilities.
• Develop and maintain full-stack software that supports agentic AI workflows.
• Build user-facing interfaces and tools, implementing backend services and APIs, and writing application logic that enables agent communication, orchestration, and tool use.
• Integrate AI models and agents with external systems and services via APIs, supporting testing and debugging, deploying solutions into target environments, configuring monitoring and logging, and ensuring reliable, secure execution of agentic AI systems in production.
• Work with a mix of open-source models, agentic frameworks, and proprietary commercial AI services.
• Contribute to the development of approaches for securing agentic workflows and for evaluating system behavior with respect to accuracy, performance, reliability, and mission impact.
• Help ensure that AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines and principles of transparency, accountability, and fairness.
• Conduct applied research, develop prototypes, and evaluate and document results, including contributing to technical reports, publications, or conference presentations.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Engineering, or a related field with 2+ years of relevant professional experience, or a Master’s degree with relevant experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building production systems.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages, including TypeScript/JavaScript for application development and Python for AI integration and prototyping.
- Experience building full-stack applications, including frontend development (React) and backend services/APIs (Node.js / python ).
- Practical understanding of large language models (LLMs) and experience using agent frameworks such as LangChain , LangGraph , CrewAI , AutoGen , A2A, or MCP.
- Ability to design and implement tool-using AI agents, including API integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and memory/context management.
- Experience integrating AI systems with external services, data sources, and mission systems via secure APIs.
- Familiarity with deploying and operating applications in virtualized and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, VMware).
- Experience with logging, monitoring, testing, and debugging distributed systems.
- Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
Benefits
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
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