Senior Agentic Software Engineer at The MITRE Corporation
Colorado Springs, CO
$129,200–$193,800from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building, securing, and operating mission-oriented software systems and data platforms using AI-assisted and agentic development methods. Day-to-day work spans standing up agentic toolchains, maturing prototypes into production-grade systems, defining guardrails for AI-generated code, and automating DevSecOps pipelines. Suits an experienced software engineer with hands-on AI/agentic tooling experience who is comfortable advising stakeholders and setting engineering standards.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). 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 (10)
The role is titled 'Senior Agentic Software Engineer' — a relatively novel framing centered on AI-assisted/agentic software development. 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the best fit given the primary work is designing, building, and operating software systems; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as a runner-up given the emerging 'agentic engineering' specialization.
The compensation range ($129,200–$193,800) is presented with a midpoint of $161,500; the full range is captured in min/max.
Clearance: the posting states no clearance is required at hire, but the candidate must obtain a Secret clearance within one year. The role is gated on eligibility (US citizenship), so Secret is set as the clearance requirement.
Degree: the JD states '5 years with a Bachelor's; or 3 years with a Master's; or a PhD' — equivalent experience paths are offered, so no hard degree floor is set.
'Agentic AI development tools' is listed as a required skill per the Basic Qualifications section; specific examples (copilot, code agents, test generation, PR review automation) are captured as alternatives since any of these satisfy the requirement.
SAST/DAST appear together in the responsibilities narrative and are listed under preferred qualifications context; they are marked preferred and combined as one skill with DAST as an alternative.
LLMs, RAG, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk, and MLOps all appear exclusively under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
The role is hybrid (minimum 50% on-site); remote is set to false.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): agentic AI development tools.
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.
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