Position SummaryThe AI Developer designs and develops secure, accessible, and maintainable AI-enabled applications, APIs, interfaces, and workflow automations. The position operationalizes approved AI models, RAG services, data products, integration services, and human-in-the-loop capabilities in support of DOL agency missions.
Essential Duties- Develop full-stack AI-enabled applications, APIs, microservices, dashboards, workflow automations, and enterprise-system integrations.
- Implement capabilities using approved LLMs, RAG pipelines, classification models, document intelligence, predictive analytics, generative AI, agentic workflows, and MCP-based services.
- Develop backend services that integrate with approved models, vector stores, data platforms, identity providers, enterprise systems, and Government-approved cloud services.
- Build accessible web interfaces and dashboards that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 Level A/AA requirements.
- Implement user-facing human-in-the-loop controls, including review queues, decision-support displays, overrides, approvals, escalation mechanisms, correction/feedback workflows, audit trails, and role-based access.
- Ensure AI outputs are clearly identified, appropriately grounded in approved sources, and presented with citations, limitations, and required user controls.
- Develop modular, maintainable, testable code using secure software-development practices, code reviews, version control, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Implement application security controls, including authentication, authorization, input validation, API security, secrets management, encryption, logging, error handling, and rate limiting.
- Support AI-security controls, including prompt-injection defenses, safe prompt/context handling, output validation, controlled tool use, and audit logging.
- Develop and maintain unit, integration, API, regression, performance, security, and accessibility tests.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture records, configuration documentation, deployment scripts, runbooks, release notes, and knowledge-transfer artifacts.
- Support production monitoring, release activities, incident response, defect resolution, and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline.
- At least three years of experience in software development, full-stack development, application integration, API development, or cloud-native development.
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or other modern programming languages.
- Experience with REST APIs, relational and/or NoSQL databases, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern software-development practices.
- Experience or demonstrated proficiency integrating AI/ML, LLM APIs, RAG, NLP, search, automation, document intelligence, or comparable AI-enabled capabilities.
- Familiarity with application-security principles and secure-coding practices.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional agile environment.
- Must be willing to work 3 days onsite at customer site in Washington, DC.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with React, Angular, Vue, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Django, Spring Boot, .NET, or similar modern web/application frameworks.
- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, MCP, AI orchestration frameworks, or vector-store integrations.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, infrastructure as code, API gateways, or cloud-native architectures.
- Experience developing Section 508-compliant applications or performing accessibility remediation.
- Experience supporting Federal IT, Government repositories, secure DevSecOps environments, or FedRAMP-authorized cloud services.
Summary of Benefits- 15 PTO days
- 11 paid holidays
- Medical Insurance with - 3 options (HSA with $600 Employer Contribution).
- Dental Insurance with no age limit orthodonture.
- Vision Insurance through EyeMed in and out of network coverage.
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability coverage with 100% premium support,
- Life insurance and AD&D with 100% premium support
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Critical Care and Accident Insurance availability
- Pet Insurance through Nationwide
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401k with enrollment from day one. 4% deferral by company.
- $1500 Annual Training Budget
- $1500 Referral bonus
- Eligibility for annual merit and discretionary bonus
- Flexible work arrangements
