Principal, Agentic AI Practice (5450) at SMX
Nashville, TN
$172,900–$272,400from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical and commercial role sitting second-in-command within a newly forming agentic AI practice focused on U.S. government customers. The position spans setting technical direction, personally building and demonstrating autonomous AI coding agent solutions, shaping and closing deals, and authoring proposals — while coordinating across sales, delivery, and partner teams. It suits someone equally at home prototyping hands-on and presenting reference architectures to executive or program stakeholders in high-security federal environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
This role is a hybrid 'practice deputy' combining technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, and hands-on prototyping for an agentic AI practice. No single SOC code fits cleanly: 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best available catch-all; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the closest runner-up given the explicit hands-on build/prototype requirement.
The JD requires an 'Active U.S. Government security clearance, Secret minimum' as a hard gate, with 'Top Secret and SCI eligibility strongly preferred.' Clearance is set to TopSecretSci to reflect the TS/SCI eligibility preference and the IC pursuit context, though Secret is the stated minimum.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related discipline, OR commensurate work experience.' Because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to None.
The 8-year experience requirement is stated at the role level ('at least eight (8) years in technical sales, sales engineering, or solutions architecture'), not tied to any specific technology.
Agentic AI tooling (e.g., Devin or comparable autonomous coding agents) is listed under Required Skills with explicit 'demonstrated experience' language and is marked required. The specific tool 'Devin' is illustrative ('such as'), so no alternatives are listed beyond the category itself.
FedRAMP, IL4/IL5/IL6, ATO, AWS GovCloud, SysML, UAF, and DoDAF all appear under 'Desired Skills & Experience' and are marked preferred.
The caller has declared this fully remote; no metro is inferred despite the Herndon, VA team reference in the posting.
Requires a TS/SCI 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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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