AI Full Stack Developer at CACI
Dayton, OH
$63,300–$129,700from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Dayton, OH
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack developer role at CACI focused on building and deploying AI-powered web applications within a secure Department of Defense environment. The work spans backend API development, frontend UI construction, relational and vector database integration, and RAG pipeline design — all oriented around embedding LLMs into internal mission-support tools. Candidates with Python, modern web frameworks, and hands-on AI integration experience are the target profile.
Mid level · Confidential clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The clearance listed is 'NACI' (National Agency Check with Inquiries), which is a background investigation tier typically associated with low-risk public trust positions rather than a traditional classified clearance. It has been mapped to 'Confidential' as the closest available option, but hiring managers should note this is a public trust suitability determination, not a collateral clearance.
No geographic location is specified in the posting; the CBSA field has been left blank. The role mentions up to 10% local travel, suggesting a physical work site exists but its location is not disclosed.
The salary range ($63,300–$129,700/year) is very wide and explicitly noted by the employer as varying by location, contract labor category, and experience — it should not be treated as a narrow band.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is listed as a required skill under 'AI Data Integration'; it is a methodology rather than a named tool, but it is explicitly called out as a hard requirement and retained here as a concrete, named capability gate.
The 'Desired' section covers air-gapped/IL5+ deployment understanding, Hugging Face, vLLM/llama.cpp, LangChain/LlamaIndex, and AI guardrails/hallucination mitigation — all treated as preferred.
Requires a Confidential 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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