- Fort Meade, Maryland, United States
- Senior
- $190K–$240K per year
- 12+ years
Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our intel team. AIMASSIST brings AI into the operations organization, embedding engineers with the operators, analysts, and developers who carry out the CNO mission.
Compensation
Salary Range: $190,000 to $240,000
Responsibilities
- Lead forward-deployed engagements with operations customers: elicit requirements from operators and analysts, identify the workflows where AI saves the most time, and deliver solutions from prototype to production.
- Architect and build agentic systems in Python that connect LLMs, MCP servers, Skills, and subagents to mission data sources and existing operational tools.
- Design guardrails for autonomous agents, including scoped permissions, human approval gates, and audit logging, so agents can act on operational systems safely.
- Build evaluation suites with mission users that measure the accuracy, reliability, and failure modes of AI capabilities, and use the results to decide when a capability is ready to field.
- Evaluate new models, frameworks, and AI design patterns, both frontier and open-weight, for fit against mission problems, and brief findings and tradeoffs to technical and government leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in a technical discipline
- Nice to have: Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Nice to have: Experience with Skills, subagents, or multi-agent orchestration frameworks such as PydanticAI or LangGraph