Senior Technical Lead for Agentic AI systems at Agile Defense. Leading AI prototype programs for national security with technical architecture and delivery management.
Responsibilities
Serve as the Technical Lead and Delivery Manager for a high-impact Agentic AI Prototype program with the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO)
Function as the most senior full-stack engineer and architect on the agreement
Translate Government-defined mission outcomes into secure, production-ready AI agent capabilities delivered within DoD IL5+ cloud environments
Lead internal implementation, coordinate multiple non-traditional subcontractor teams, partner closely with the Government Product Owner, and be accountable for delivering accepted capabilities against fixed-price milestones
Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical leadership roles delivering production AI systems in secure or regulated environments
Proven track record designing, building, and fielding agentic AI systems, including:
Agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph) and multi-agent orchestration
Advanced prompt engineering, system prompts, and agent persona libraries
Tool use/function calling, logical branching, and state management
Strong cloud expertise in IL5+ environments:
Azure IL5 and/or Google GovCloud; Kubernetes/containers; serverless; VNET/governance; Key Vault/Secrets; identity and access control
Model inference platforms: Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock; SDK integration with Gemini Enterprise, Anthropic for Gov, and Grok Enterprise
Data engineering and integration:
Designing secure API integrations and data ingestion pipelines (ETL/ELT) for structured/unstructured sources
Experience with RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector databases (e.g., pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate)
Building or integrating metadata catalogs/platforms (MCP) and search APIs (e.g., DataHub, OpenMetadata, Custom MCP)
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