[Remote] Senior AI Applications Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blu Omega is a Woman-Owned Small Business delivering technology and cybersecurity solutions to federal agencies and enterprise clients nationwide. They are seeking a Senior AI Applications Engineer to support a federal program focused on next-generation autonomous AI capabilities, responsible for building agentic AI workflows and orchestration systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core agentic workflows, including multi-step reasoning, planning, memory, and tool-use across single and multi-agent systems
• Implement communication patterns for agent collaboration and task handoff
• Build and maintain tool-calling layers, including definitions, schemas, error handling, and result formatting
• Own integration with MCP clients for tool discovery and invocation
• Develop multi-agent workflows that are reliable, observable, and debuggable in production
• Manage LLM orchestration, including prompt construction, context management, model selection, and response parsing
• Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) features such as query formulation, result ranking, and citation grounding
• Develop prompt engineering patterns and system prompts for quality and consistency across multiple LLM providers
• Manage context window budgets, including truncation, summarization, and pagination logic
• Build evaluation pipelines for LLM quality, grounding, safety, and regression testing
• Optimize token economics for cost-efficient prompt and pipeline design
• Translate product requirements into technical designs and ship features end-to-end
• Prototype new AI features, run experiments, and iterate based on user data
• Collaborate with product, UX, applied science, and operations teams
• Ensure observability and reliability through tracing, logging, metrics, and application-level SLOs
• Build fallback and guardrail logic for AI services
• Write production-quality, tested, reviewed, and well-documented code
• Communicate technical decisions clearly and participate in design reviews
• Mentor and unblock team members, ensuring security and compliance in all work

Skills

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
• Proven experience in high-velocity environments shipping complex products end-to-end
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one other backend language
• Experience with cloud-native systems and containerization
• Experience developing and operating systems on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, APIs, and software design patterns
• Experience with production LLM applications and multi-agent AI systems
• Experience with multi-agent or agentic AI systems
• Cloud-native distributed systems experience
• Shipping AI products in production environments

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage through national providers4
• 401(k) with company match (eligible after 6 months; vesting applies
• Company-paid Life and AD&D insurance with voluntary options
• Short-term and long-term disability options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with 24/7 confidential support and mental health resources
• Telehealth and virtual care options
• Pet insurance, legal services, and identity theft protection options
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 paid federal holiday
• Access to wellness programs, discounts, and lifestyle benefits

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