Senior AIML Software Engineer

Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer to join the Labs Agentic AI team youll design build and ship AI-powered systems a compliance-ready low-code platform for dynamically generating and orchestrating AI agentic workflows. Youll work across the full product lifecycle: from architecting multi-step agentic pipelines backed by to building the plugin system APIs and interfaces that bring them to life from within federal-grade security and accreditation constraints.

This is a role for someone who thinks deeply about how AI agents should behave in high-trust environments cares about reliability and auditability and can move fluidly between distributed orchestration backend systems and product-facing features.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Design and implement agentic AI capabilities using Python-based frameworks (LangChain LangGraph DeepAgents) and orchestrated workflows
• Build and maintain integrations with LLM APIs (Anthropic/Claude OpenAI AWS Bedrock Ollama) to power intelligent multi-step automations
• Develop full-stack product features (FastAPI React) that surface AI capabilities to users from REST APIs and streaming interfaces to workflow builders and dashboards
• Instrument agent pipelines with OpenTelemetry tracing provenance audit trails and observability tooling for debugging and performance evaluation
• Write clear well-tested maintainable code that passes strict pre-commit validation and contribute to engineering standards in a compliance-driven environment
• Evaluate agent performance debug distributed workflows and continuously improve reliability and output quality

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of a BS degree with 12 years of experience MS degree with 10 years or PhD with 7 years with meaningful exposure to AI/ML systems or LLM-based products
• Hands-on experience building agentic systems using multi-step reasoning tool use RAG pipelines or autonomous task execution
• Strong Python skills (3.12); comfort with async/await patterns type hints and modern Python tooling
• Experience with workflow or task orchestration systems (Airflow Prefect Celery or similar distributed execution frameworks)
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks and an understanding of the underlying concepts (chains tool calling agent loops) that transfer across tools
• Experience working with LLM APIs (OpenAI Anthropic AWS Bedrock or similar)
• Comfort working across the stack: FastAPI/Python backends React frontends Docker containerization and PostgreSQL
• A product mindset: you think about the end user not just the technical implementation
• Comfort operating with some ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
• US Citizenship is a requirement for this position

Desired Additional Experience:

• Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks for workflow/activity patterns task queues worker lifecycle management
• Familiarity with federal compliance environments: FedRAMP FIPS 140-2/3 IronBank container hardening OPA policy enforcement or Section 508 accessibility
• Experience building plugin or extension systems: dynamic code loading container isolation API mixin patterns
• Exposure to orchestration patterns: supervisor agents parallel tool calls human-in-the-loop flows DAG-based pipeline execution
• Experience with observability tooling: OpenTelemetry Jaeger Prometheus Grafana or similar distributed tracing/metrics stacks
• Familiarity with prompt engineering evaluation frameworks or agent observability
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker SDK Kubernetes) and distributed storage (S3 MinIO JuiceFS)
• Prior work building internal tooling enterprise automation products or platforms for government customers

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.