GenAI Platform Engineer
Seattle, OR - USA
Job Summary
Build AI that matters. At Accenture Federal Services (AFS) we turn GenAI from demos into operational capabilities that millions rely on. We ship production GenAI apps for confidential federal programs across defense national security public safety civilian and military health where reliability privacy and safety arent optional.
AFS is a technology company within global Accenture and a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work. Youll join a collaborative caring community that invests in your growth through handson experience certifications and industry training. We ship in weeks not quarters and measure success by latency reliability safety and cost.
Confidentiality matters: We dont disclose program details on public postings. If you advance well share specifics as appropriate during the process.
Role Overview
- Operationalize LLM/RAG: Stand up and harden AI services (cloud or onprem) that ground responses in mission data with low hallucination rates.
- Guardrails & governance: Implement prompt/version management policybased filtering rolebased access audit trails and safety checks aligned to federal guidelines.
- Observability & SRE for AI: Define SLIs/SLOs (quality latency safety cost) instrument metrics run oncall lead postmortems and reduce MTTR.
- Performance & cost engineering: Optimize p95 latency with caching/batching/autoscaling; meter usage and apply FinOps to keep token/spend within targets.
- Reusable platform components: Ship SDKs CI/CD templates and Terraform/IaC modules that accelerate multiple mission teams not oneoff projects.
- Applied theory (where it matters): Use IR metrics (e.g. NDCG) to improve retrieval quality; apply queueing/control principles to hit latency SLOs; run offline/online evals for helpfulness safety and factuality.
What you wont do: Train or invent new foundation models; deliver academic research. Your focus is making bestinclass models work flawlessly in production.
Youll Thrive Here If You
- Own production systems endtoend: Integration deployment observability incident response.
- Are strong in Python
- Have experience with retrieval/vector search (e.g. pgvector/Milvus/OpenSearch) and grounding AI in enterprise data.
- Think in SLOs and dashboards; you improve reliability latency safety and cost with data.
- Communicate clearly with engineers PMs and security stakeholders especially in complianceheavy environments.
- Must be a US Citizen
Nice to Have
- Experience integrating leading cloud AI services or onprem inference stacks Background in evaluation/safety testing or A/B experimentation for AI experiences.
- FinOps for AI: metering budgets and optimization strategies for usage and spend.
- Prior work in regulated/secure environments (e.g. FedRAMPlike controls ATO processes) with fast shipping.
- Contributions to internal frameworks or opensource tooling; mentorship of engineers.
- Advanced degree welcome but not required highimpact delivery matters most.
As required by local law Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states ofCalifornia Colorado Hawaii Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New York Washington Vermont the District of Columbia and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to office location role skill set and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
The pay range for the states of California Colorado Hawaii Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New York Washington Vermont the District of Columbia and the city of Cleveland is:
$100200 - $203400 USD
Required Experience:
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