Senior AI Engineer

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers. By revealing true capacity, exposing real constraints, coordinating resources, and executing at the speed of operational demands, the front line gets what it needs to succeed.

We are seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join our Agentic AI team as we scale our AI capabilities across all levels of the U.S. government.

Over the past year, we have seen rapid adoption of our AI agent, Ace. We are building the systems and infrastructure required to move agentic AI beyond demos and prototypes into reliable, production-grade software operating against complex, real-world problems.

This role sits at the intersection of applied AI and systems engineering. You will design and build agent architectures, model integrations, tools, evaluation systems, and infrastructure that enable increasingly capable AI systems. You will work across the AI stack - from experimentation and model behavior to production services and distributed infrastructure.

In order to do this job well: we are looking for engineers who understand that building great AI products requires more than calling a model API. You should be comfortable reasoning about how agents use context, tools, models, memory, and compute, and turning those ideas into reliable production systems.

This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Arlington, VA / Pittsburgh, PA / San Francisco, CA / Anywhere in the US.

This role may require up to 25% travel, including periodic travel to our Pittsburgh, PA and Arlington, VA offices for team collaboration, planning activities, and in-person meetings.

• 5+ years of experience building production software, AI/ML systems, distributed systems, or similar technical systems.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating production AI agents or agent platforms.
• Experience developing core agent infrastructure, including agent runtimes, tool execution, context management, memory, orchestration, or related platform capabilities.
• Strong understanding of state-of-the-art agent architectures and the engineering tradeoffs involved in building reliable, production-grade agentic systems.
• Experience designing agents that use tools, reason across multi-step tasks, interact with external systems, and operate over long-running or complex workflows.
• Experience building evaluation systems for agents, including task-level evaluations, behavioral evaluations, regression testing, and production quality measurement.
• Strong understanding of modern LLM systems, including model inference, context engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, retrieval, model selection, and techniques for improving agent performance.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging models, research, and agent techniques and translate promising approaches into production systems.
• Strong programming experience in Python and experience building production-quality software.
• Experience designing scalable APIs, services, asynchronous systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience operating production services using Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, containers, service orchestration, networking, storage, and scalable architectures.
• Comfortable debugging complex failures spanning model behavior, agent execution, application code, and production infrastructure.
• Able to move quickly between research and engineering: prototype an idea, evaluate it rigorously, understand why it works or fails, and turn successful approaches into reliable production systems.
• Comfortable working at the frontier of a rapidly evolving field where established patterns may not yet exist.

We firmly believe that past performance is the best indicator of future performance.  If you thrive while building solutions to complex problems, are a self-starter, and are passionate about making an impact in global security, we’re eager to hear from you.