[Remote] AI Foundry Engineer (Gov't Tech) Similar jobs

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sikich is hiring an AI Foundry Engineer to support a government client. The role translates business requirements into prompts for AI platforms, reviews and improves generated systems, and tests, verifies, and deploys end-to-end applications.

Responsibilities

• Understand and translate business requirements and problem statements into a set of prompts that direct AI foundry platforms and ecosystems to generate full stack, AI and agent-based systems
• Assess the generated systems code to discover design gaps and inefficiencies, standard and coding style issues. Identify and implement fixes in the design and code as necessary
• Test, verify, and deploy the end-to-end system / application

Skills

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a government issued Public Trust
• 20+ years of overall software, distributed systems, and cloud native system development experience
• Coding standards (Google JavaScript / JSON style guide, PEP 8 style guide)
• Design patterns (GOF, Others)
• Architecture frameworks
• 2-3+ years of developing and integrating AI, Gen AI, and agentic AI algorithms, models, frameworks, and prompt engineering
• Knowledge about emerging standards for AI agent ecosystem
• SME / Power user for at least one Gen AI system (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot)
• Prompt engineering - translating business / user requirements into prompts
• 5-7+ years of in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more web application frameworks and programming languages
• Angular, React, Python, NodeJS, Rust
• Minimum of 5 years in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more cloud tech stacks, including virtual network architecture, design, implementation and management
• Minimum of one-year in-depth, hands-on experience with one or more QA frameworks and test automation platforms
• Experience in testing AI and LLM's using tools to evaluate accuracy, bias, and reliability of AI tools and systems
• Hands-on experience in using tools such as Brainstrust and Galileo
• Servant Leader – You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture
• Solutions Focused – You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible
• Impact & Influence Thinking – You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives
• AWS / Google (preferred)

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy: full-time employees may use paid time off for personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, and sick leave; FTO is activated on the first day.
• Paid holidays during the year, with time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Comprehensive wellness program; activities tracked through the wellness provider can earn gift cards and other rewards.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options.
• HSA employer contribution.
• Eleven (11) paid holidays annually.
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee referral bonus program.
• Client referral bonus program.
• Pet insurance.
• FORCE – Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer in their local communities.

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