Senior AI Platforms Engineer at Expression
Washington, DC
$180,000–$210,000
Jul 5, 2026
Washington, DC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and evolving an enterprise-grade agentic AI platform serving federal government customers. Day-to-day work spans designing LLM orchestration layers, retrieval pipelines, vector search systems, and AI governance capabilities, alongside developing high-performance Python and TypeScript backend services and CI/CD automation. The role suits a seasoned engineer with 8–10+ years of experience who can also provide technical leadership and mentorship across a product team.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (10)
Clearance: the JD says 'eligible to obtain Secret or Top Secret Clearance' — this is framed as a gate (U.S. citizenship required, must be able to obtain), but the candidate need not currently hold one. Mapped to Secret as the lower bound stated.
Agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Strands) are listed under Required Qualifications but explicitly qualified as 'useful but not required,' so they are marked preferred.
Terraform and Helm are listed together as 'Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Helm, or equivalent)' — treated as a single interchangeable requirement with Helm as an alternative rather than two separate hard gates, since the JD presents them as a paired example with 'or equivalent'.
vLLM, Ollama, and llama.cpp are listed as interchangeable self-hosted model serving options; vLLM is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
AWS and Azure are listed as interchangeable cloud deployment targets; AWS is used as the primary.
PostgreSQL, asyncpg, and microservices/event-driven architecture experience appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is hybrid or remote with limited travel; headquartered in Washington DC.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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