Agentic AI and LLM Applications Software Development Engineer, Senior
AI summary of the role
Senior software engineer on the GRACE team at ARPA-H, building production agentic AI systems and LLM-powered applications.
What you’ll do
- Design and build core agentic workflows: multi-step reasoning, planning, memory, and tool-use across single and multi-agent systems
- Own LLM orchestration at the application layer: prompt construction, context management, model selection, and response parsing
- Build and maintain RAG features: query formulation, ranking, citation grounding, and hallucination mitigation
- Implement MCP client-side integration and A2A communication patterns for agent collaboration
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems
- Experience in Python and at least one other backend language
- Experience building and operating systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with containerization and CI/CD pipelines
Technologies
Python · AWS · GCP · Azure · OpenAI GPT · Anthropic Claude · Google Gemini · MCP · RAG · A2A · CI/CD · Docker
About Booz Allen
Builds AI, cyber, cloud, and engineering solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies, blending consulting scale with mission-specific technology delivery.
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