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Booz Allen

Builds AI and cyber systems for the US government

Enterprise Cybersecurity AI Infrastructure Engineer

Full-TimeDeadline 1/11/27
$62k - $141k/yr
Junior
McLean, VA, USA
In Person
AI & Machine LearningApplied Machine Learning

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 2 years of software engineering experience, including building and operating production-scale machine learning infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.
  • At least 2 years of experience creating and training agents and models for agentic artificial intelligence, including tool calling, evaluation, and deployment into production workflows.
  • Experience with AWS and Databricks, and building continuous integration and continuous delivery in GitHub Actions with AWS integration, including IAM, OIDC federation, and Secrets Manager.
  • Experience with Python, SQL, and infrastructure as code using Terraform or Terragrunt, as well as coding agents.
  • Experience building and maintaining data pipelines over large or sensitive datasets, including schema management and reproducible deployments.
  • Experience owning platform work end to end, from technical design through production deployment and operational monitoring.
  • Experience applying DevSecOps practices to delivery pipelines, including least-privilege access, secret handling, and automated security checks.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity operations or security telemetry.
  • Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
  • High school diploma or GED.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with AI and machine learning engineers, data scientists, and security operations center operators to translate modeling and analyst requirements into shared platform capabilities, including retrieval, scoring, and agent workflow design.
  • Build, operate, and optimize the platform behind internal AI products, including platforms based on Databricks and AWS.
  • Implement and scale data pipelines to ingest security telemetry and threat intelligence, including logs, endpoint, identity, cloud, and threat-intelligence sources, into governed schemas for analysts and models.
  • Build model evaluation, validation, and serving paths, including experiment tracking, regression checks, and safe rollout and rollback, so models reach operations with a measured quality bar.
  • Build and maintain GitHub Actions continuous integration and continuous delivery for AI products, including self-hosted runners, AWS OIDC into IAM, Secrets Manager, pull-request environments, and production promotion.
  • Implement DevSecOps controls, including dependency and secret scanning, infrastructure policy, service-principal isolation, and Unity Catalog grants to keep non-production identities off production data.
  • Own infrastructure as code for catalogs, permissions, and deployment, such as Terraform or Terragrunt and Databricks Asset Bundles, so every environment is repeatable.
  • Use coding assistants to accelerate delivery, and review generated infrastructure, pipeline, and application changes before they merge.
  • Perform design and code reviews, set technical direction for platform work, and translate researcher and analyst needs into reusable infrastructure.
  • Assess platform problems, align technical and non-technical stakeholders, and drive decisions to closure in support of cyber operations and mission platforms.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with containerization such as Docker and container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Spark, distributed training, or orchestration frameworks such as Ray or PyTorch Distributed.
  • Experience with MLflow or an equivalent stack for experiment tracking, evaluation harnesses, and a model registry on Databricks.
  • Experience implementing retrieval and agent infrastructure, including vector indexes, model endpoints, tool gateways, and evaluation loops.
  • Experience with AWS beyond identity and secrets across storage, networking, or private connectivity into Databricks.
  • Experience operating platforms in sensitive or regulated environments, including FedRAMP, IL4, or IL5.
  • Knowledge of secure-AI practices aligned to NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, and MITRE ATLAS.
  • Knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, or threat-intelligence platforms and how models integrate into analyst workflows.
  • IT, cloud, or security certification such as AWS, Databricks, CKA, CKAD, CISSP, or an AI security certification.

About the company

Booz Allen builds and runs technology for the U.S. government, mostly for the military and intelligence agencies, and its engineers work alongside consultants who know each agency's mission. In 1958, it helped the U.S. Navy create PERT, a project-scheduling method first used on the Polaris submarine missile program and later adopted across government and industry. Its teams design cyber defenses, AI and data tools, and battlefield communications, and it sells its own products, such as Vellox, a suite of AI tools that spot and fight off hackers. Agencies pay mainly through multi-year contracts that reimburse costs, bill hours, or set a fixed price. Booz Allen was founded in 1914 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1914

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What believers are saying

  • Product work is growing: Booz Allen bought Ultra's battlefield encryption and computing unit for $720 million in August 2026.
  • Hiring continues despite cuts: Booz Allen listed 2,282 open roles in October 2026, 1,097 of them in technology.
  • Work is lined up for years: backlog, including contract options, hit $39.5 billion in June 2026, about 3.5 years' revenue.

What critics are saying

  • Job security has slipped: staff fell from 33,400 to 30,900 in the year to June 2026 as civil work shrank.
  • Stock grants lost value: shares fell 29% in the year to October 2026 while defense IT rival CACI rose 14%.
  • Shutdowns halt paid work: the federal shutdown that began October 2025 cost Booz Allen about $50 million in unperformed work.

What makes Booz Allen unique

  • Most coworkers are cleared for secrets: about 77% of Booz Allen's 31,500 employees held security clearances in March 2026.
  • AI is its specialty: Booz Allen calls itself the federal government's largest AI provider, with about 400 active AI projects.
  • It bankrolls defense tech startups: Booz Allen tripled its venture fund to $300 million in July 2025, backing 17 companies.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Vacation
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Remote Work Options
  • Flexible Work Hours

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