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WorkstreamProduction engineering

Founding Engineer

Lehi, UTHybrid

Founding Engineer and first engineering hire on Workstream’s AI-Native Services delivery team, reporting to the Head of Delivery.

Pay range unavailable

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WyetechProduction engineering

Software Engineer 2

MDOn-site

Senior application developer role at Wyetech supporting federal intelligence customers.

Pay range unavailable

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Dark Wolf SolutionsProduction engineering

AI Software Engineer

Chantilly, VA · Herndon, VAOn-site

Senior AI Engineer to architect and deploy secure AI solutions for defense and federal enterprises, focusing on RAG systems, LLM agents, semantic search, and NLP-driven analytics.

$120,000–$160,000

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WyetechProduction engineering

Software Engineer 3

MDOn-site

Senior Analytic Developer role supporting the Access Discovery & Tradecraft mission for federal government customers.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Mission Software Engineer

Reston, VA

Mission Software Engineers own customer-deployed software spanning networking, autonomy, robotics, systems integration, and data-heavy applications.

$191,000–$253,000

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ViaProduction engineering

Staff Engineer, AI Labs

New York, NY

Founding Staff Engineer for Via's new AI Labs, an incubator-style team building AI-powered products for cities beyond transit.

$200,000–$275,000

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UltraProduction engineering

Product Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Product Engineer building the customer-facing and internal software systems surrounding Ultra’s warehouse robots, including operations, support, deployment, and potentially robot or mobile code.

$150,000–$225,000

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WyetechProduction engineering

Software Engineer 3

MDOn-site

Senior Analytic Developer role supporting the Analytic Solutions mission for a federal customer.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Mission Software Engineer, Senior

Reston, VA

Senior Mission Software Engineer responsible for owning and deploying customer-facing software that integrates networking, autonomy, robotics, and complex systems.

$220,000–$292,000

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

AI/ML Engineer

Dayton, OH

This AI/ML engineer role supports national security missions by building, testing, deploying, and operating end-to-end AI pipelines.

$99,000–$225,000

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D2 ConsultingProduction engineering

Senior AI Developer

Springfield, VA

Senior AI Developer role supporting an Intelligence customer in Springfield, VA, requiring an active TS/SCI clearance.

$175,000–$185,000

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HavocAIProduction engineering

Field Software Engineer

USRemote

Field Software Engineer embedded with customers to deploy, integrate, and modify HavocAI's autonomous maritime systems during live demonstrations and operational missions.

$150,000–$175,000

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AmbralProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)

New York, NYOn-site

Build the replayable environment engine that reconstructs historical enterprise workflows, evaluates agent behavior, and supports continuous model improvement.

$140,000–$175,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Senior Knowledge Engineer

Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 moreHybrid

Senior Knowledge Engineer at Accenture's Advanced Technology Centers, leading design and governance of enterprise-scale knowledge graphs and ontologies to power agentic AI systems.

$80,400–$293,800

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Tech, Media & Telecom

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer on Sierra’s Tech, Media & Telecom team, building and owning production AI agents from initial pilot through continuous iteration for major telecommunications, media, and technology companies.

Pay range unavailable

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RedhorseProduction engineering

Full Stack Software Engineer

Arlington, VAOn-site

Full Stack Software Engineer supporting a Department of Defense AI transformation effort across engineering, mission operations, and executive workstreams.

Pay range unavailable

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Retail

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer on Sierra’s Retail Agent Engineering team, building and operating production AI agents for major consumer brands across web, app, phone, and in-store channels.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Backend engineer on OpenAI's small, entrepreneurial Financial Services vertical team, building data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations that power AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.

$347,000–$385,000

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

AI Software Developer, Senior

San Diego, CA

Senior AI software developer role supporting Navy cyber missions in San Diego, blending hands-on software/integration with advisory work in secure, classified environments.

$86,900–$198,000

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GuidehouseProduction engineering

Senior Palantir Foundry Engineer

San Antonio, TX · Houston, TX · +3 more

Senior-level Palantir Foundry engineer role at Guidehouse, focused on designing and building data integration, analytics, and operational solutions for federal clients.

Pay range unavailable

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LovableProduction engineering

Product Partnership Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Product Partnership Engineer responsible for building strategic enterprise partnerships and shipping technically deep integrations.

Pay range unavailable

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

AI/ML Engineer

Chantilly, VA

This role focuses on designing and implementing AI/ML solutions for national security missions, working directly with mission users to capture workflows and translate them into LLM-powered or agent-based automation.

$99,000–$225,000

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GuidehouseProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Engineer I

San Antonio, TX · Houston, TX · +3 more

This is an entry-level Palantir Foundry engineering role at Guidehouse, focused on designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines, ontology models, and operational applications on the Foundry platform.

Pay range unavailable

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Data Engineer

Norfolk, VA

Data engineer role at Booz Allen focused on Palantir-based data pipelines and platforms for mission-driven government projects.

$61,900–$141,000

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SalesforceProduction engineering

Senior Solution Builder

New York, NYOn-site

Senior hands-on IC in a 2-person delivery pod, architecting and deploying production-grade Agentforce and agentic AI solutions at customer sites.

$182,770–$269,080

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer: Integrations

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Senior software engineer to own customer deployments and develop integrations for an AI platform targeting semiconductor and consumer electronics companies.

Pay range unavailable

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Observe.AIProduction engineering

AI Agent Engineer, Client Facing

USRemote

Build and deploy enterprise-grade Voice and Chat AI agents and AI Copilot across the full lifecycle, from prompt and workflow design through customer integration, production deployment, and optimization.

$108,000–$170,000

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer: Deployments

San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Senior engineer to own customer deployments of Voltai's AI platform for semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, working on-prem and in the cloud.

Pay range unavailable

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