Agentic AI Engineer

Date Posted:

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-VA-ARLINGTON-Th St N BBN ARLINGTON

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

U.S. Citizen U.S. Person or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance Type:

TS/SCI without Polygraph

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

For more than 70 years scientists and engineers in a wide ranging disciplines at RTX BBN Technologies have collaborated to solve real-world problems through research exploration development and prototyping. We partner with the best technical talent in academia and industry to challenge the status quo pioneer new technologies and create transformative solutions. Our culture enables all employees to find purpose thrive and succeed. By creating an environment where all opinions are valued risk-taking is encouraged and excellence is rewarded we allow our employees to do their best most important work. We offer industry-leading benefits including 100% paid tuition program a generous 401k company match a Retirement Contribution performance-based incentive plans an onsite gym and game room paid parental leave paid time off and all kinds of employee discounts.

The following position is to join our BBN Technologies team:

What You Will Do:

• Design develop and deploy agentic AI systems capable of autonomous reasoning planning and multi-step task execution.
• Build and optimize Python-based frameworks and tools that support scalable agent architectures.
• Integrate cuttingedge research into practical applications rapidly prototyping new agentic capabilities.
• Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to design experiments evaluate system performance and produce highquality technical documentation.
• Lead or contribute to peerreviewed publications white papers and internal research briefs.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate research insights into real-world impact.

What You Will Learn:

• Advanced techniques in agentic AI including tooluse planning algorithms multi-agent coordination and memory architectures.
• How to translate emerging research into productionready systems at scale.
• Best practices for evaluating autonomous AI behaviors and ensuring safety reliability and alignment.
• Collaboration workflows across research engineering and product teams.
• Exposure to a broad range of generative AI reinforcement learning and orchestration frameworks.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Experience in Python including experience building production-quality systems.
• Experience developing agentic or autonomous AI systems.
• Experience in latest research in agentic AI LLM architectures planning algorithms or autonomous reasoning.
• Experience designing and running experimental evaluations for AI models or agents.
• Technical writing skills including experience authoring research papers preprints or detailed technical reports.
• Ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional research and engineering teams.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Graduate degree in computer science machine learning artificial intelligence or a related field.
• Experience with reinforcement learning multi-agent systems or cognitive architectures.
• Contributions to open-source AI frameworks or agentic toolkits.
• Familiarity with cloud-native development distributed compute or containerized workflows.
• A track record of published research in top AI/ML conferences or journals.

Learn More & Apply Now!
Work Location: Onsite-Arlington VA
Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role:

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees as they are essential to the development of our products

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process candidates may be asked to attendselect steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site hybrid or remote.

The salary range for this role is 95500 USD - 181700 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role function and associated responsibilities a candidates work experience location education/training and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical dental vision life insurance short-term disability long-term disability 401(k) match flexible spending accounts flexible work schedules employee assistance program Employee Scholar Program parental leave paid time off and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including but not limited to individual performance business unit performance and/or the companys performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act.

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