$140,000–$190,000
Senior AI Developer
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$140,000–$190,000Mclean, VA
Builds production-ready AI capabilities across generative, predictive, and autonomous systems, spanning data ingestion, experimentation, orchestration, application integration, and deployment.
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Posted base pay
$140K–$190KBelow the median
Midpoint $165K · median $190K
Median $190K
This job$140K–$190KSenior FDE postings1,849 postings · middle 50% of posted pay$160K–$220KThe work
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- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept
- Implementation
- Operations
- Coding
- Writes production code
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- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
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What you’ll do
- Develop LLM applications, predictive models, multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI microservices.
- Build reusable AI components and integrate models with enterprise systems, vector databases, and cloud services.
- Design prompts, retrieval systems, context management, and LLM orchestration logic.
- Deploy and optimize inference services with LLMOps, including monitoring and continuous improvement.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on AI/ML, generative AI, or LLM applications.
- Proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, or LlamaIndex.
- Experience developing production-grade AI applications and implementing RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector stores.
About Steampunk
Federal technology contractor delivering human-centered digital transformation, cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and data services to government clients.
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