Anika Systems
Federal tech consulting; data, automation, cloud.
AI Engineer
Remote currently, with possible future partial or full return to office based on client, contract, or company requirements.
About the job
- Must be a United States citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance.
- One to three years of professional experience building and shipping machine learning or natural language processing systems, including large language model-based or generative artificial intelligence solutions.
- Production experience with Python and TypeScript, including modern web frameworks such as FastAPI and React.
- Hands-on experience integrating large language models into real applications, including streaming, tool or function calling, token accounting, and failure handling, across at least one of OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex, or Azure OpenAI.
- Experience designing agentic systems, including multi-step workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
- Experience with relational data modeling on PostgreSQL using an asynchronous object-relational mapper and migration tooling.
- Fluency with Amazon Web Services, including compute, storage, identity and access management, secrets, networking, and observability, plus infrastructure as code; Terraform is preferred.
- Practical understanding of OAuth, OpenID Connect, JSON Web Tokens, role-based access control, multi-tenant isolation, and least-privilege design.
- Disciplined testing, linting, and type-checking practices, with reviewable diffs and clear written communication.
- Design and deliver production artificial intelligence systems across commercial platform work and federal modernization programs.
- Own work end-to-end across data, model integration, services, user interface, infrastructure, security, and deployment.
- Make sound technical decisions under federal compliance, security, and procurement constraints.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Linguistics, or a related field.
- Federal program exposure involving NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, authorization to operate processes, or agency-specific data-handling requirements.
- Experience with Keycloak or another OpenID Connect provider, row-level-security-based multi-tenancy, or zero-trust application design.
- Working knowledge of Databricks or Snowflake and SQL beyond create, read, update, and delete operations.
- Experience with document artificial intelligence, optical character recognition pipelines, and modernization of legacy enterprise workflows.
- Production observability experience with CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or Grafana, and incident-response experience.
- Supply-chain hardening experience involving software bills of materials, dependency scanning, signed builds, or threat modeling.
About the company
Anika Systems provides technology consulting to federal agencies, offering Data & Analytics, Intelligent Automation, IT Modernization, Application Development, and Cloud Engineering, and builds Agency-wide Centers of Excellence for Data & Analytics, Intelligent Automation, and Cloud Management. It uses the poly-cloud-based VITAL lab to turn ideas into business concepts, evaluate and select them, and implement chosen solutions as minimum viable products using the right technologies, prioritizing MVPs over long decks with a Show me over Tell Me approach. Its differentiators include strong federal domain understanding, MVP-driven delivery, and a lab that accelerates cloud transitions while focusing on Centers of Excellence. Its goal is to help federal agencies solve problems faster, modernize their IT, and operate effectively in the future through practical, measurable outcomes.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Leesburg, Virginia
Founded
2005
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- NSF obligated $10.6 million through May 11, 2026 for application support.
- SEC awarded up to $2.0 million in April 2026, extending federal account breadth.
- IRS OCPO and other 2025-2026 awards validate its automation and cloud specialization.
What critics are saying
- A July 2025 employee reported a company-wide layoff; morale risk persists.
- GS35F056GA expires November 14, 2026, threatening recompete pressure across a core revenue base.
- Heavy dependence on 8(a) sole-source and MAS vehicles creates existential set-aside vulnerability.
What makes Anika Systems unique
- Anika Systems won SEC quantitative analysis support on April 22, 2026.
- Its 2026 IRS and NSF work centers on automation, analytics, and application development.
- The company’s VITAL lab emphasizes fast MVP delivery over traditional consulting decks.
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Growing technology services firm upgrades to Unanet to streamline and expand business operationsDULLES, Va., March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Unanet, the leading provider of project-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) for the government contracting (GovCon) industry, today announced that Anika Systems has selected Unanet ERP GovCon to replace its existing off-the-shelf software. The switch to Unanet will allow Anika Systems to more easily manage its financials through efficient reporting and empowering employees to contribute to the company's growth."One of our company's goals is to constantly improve automation and efficiencies with our customers and with our own operations," said Gregory Schaub, chief financial officer at Anika Systems. "Unanet is the right fit to do that for our business because the system is so intuitive, easy to use, and we can tailor it to what we need now and in the future. The software will accommodate our growth in various ways without requiring us to make lots of costly upgrades or implementations."Based in Leesburg, Va., Anika Systems is an 8(a) business that focuses on providing automation, artificial intelligence, application development, IT modernization, and cloud engineering expertise to federal customers, such as the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S. National Science Foundation