ALTEN Technology USA · 21 hours ago
AI Lead Developer
Herndon, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $170K/yr
6+ years expALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life. They are seeking an AI Lead Developer to lead the design and development of enterprise-scale AI systems, provide technical leadership, and drive AI projects from proof of concept to production.
ConsultingInformation Technology
Hiring Manager
Joni Bauer
Responsibilities
Lead design and development of enterprise-scale AI systems integrated with broader IT landscape (AWS, GCP, Palantir)
Build RAG pipelines and multi-agent systems, driving evolution toward autonomous Agentic AI
Drive AI projects from PoC to production (scaling, CI/CD, MLOps, monitoring)
Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to internal/external teams
Act as technical advisor bridging business requirements and technical feasibility
Implement AI governance guardrails for data privacy and hallucination prevention
Qualification
Required
6+ years in Software/Data Engineering with proven track record deploying ML/AI systems in production
Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline
Expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, and prompt engineering
Expert Python proficiency and modern software architecture (APIs, microservices, Kubernetes)
Proven ability to lead technical teams and present architectures to executive audiences
Preferred
Experience with GCP preferred (AWS or comparable cloud platforms acceptable). Palantir Foundry is a plus
Experience with AI Agent frameworks (LangGraph, ADK) and classical ML is a plus
Benefits
Mentorship
Career growth opportunities
Comprehensive benefits
Company
ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company. It is a sub-organization of Alten.
501-1000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Mark Henault
Chief Technology Officer at Alten Technology
Mike Walraven
Chief Administrative Officer
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