Description
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Your contributions are...
- Lead forward-deployed engagements with mission customers, working directly with operators and analysts to identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and deliver solutions from prototype through production
- Architect and develop agentic AI systems in Python, integrating LLMs, MCP servers, Skills, and subagents with mission data sources and operational tools
- Design guardrails for autonomous agents, including scoped permissions, human approval gates, and audit logging to ensure safe interactions with operational systems
- Develop evaluation suites alongside mission users to measure the accuracy, reliability, and failure modes of AI capabilities and assess readiness for deployment
- Evaluate frontier and open-weight models, frameworks, and AI design patterns for mission applications, communicating findings and tradeoffs to technical and government leadership
- Utilize AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, while establishing team standards for reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated code
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing while leading technical design discussions
- Communicate project progress, technical risks, and tradeoffs to project leads and government stakeholders
Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
- 12 or more years of experience in software development
- Advanced Python proficiency, including experience developing production services, APIs, and data pipelines
- Experience developing LLM applications or agentic systems using tool/function calling, structured outputs, context management, and multi-step workflows
- Experience working directly with end users or mission customers to translate complex operational challenges into delivered software solutions
- Experience designing tests, evaluations, or validation layers for AI or other non-deterministic systems
- Experience using AI coding assistants or agents, such as Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot, for code generation, refactoring, and debugging, including reviewing and validating generated code
- Technical leadership experience, including leading design decisions, serving as a technical lead, or mentoring engineers
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), Docker/Kubernetes, and Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,680/year)
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $205,000 - $280,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist
Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do
U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
