AI Developer / Full Stack Developer Associate at LCG, Inc.
MD
$90,000–$110,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
MD
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract role through late 2026 supporting an NIH client in building and maintaining generative AI applications on Azure OpenAI, including RAG pipelines, chatbots, and intelligent automation tools for federal business processes such as compliance review and grant monitoring. Day-to-day work spans React front-end development, FastAPI backend services, vector database integration, and Azure cloud configuration, alongside documentation, UAT, and stakeholder reporting. Suited to an early-career developer with hands-on AI/ML and Azure experience.
Mid level · 2+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Contract
Advertised as Junior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 330 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 170–430
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 $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 (8)
This is a fixed-term contract role running July 2026 – December 2026, not a permanent position.
The posting lists a Public Trust clearance requirement — this is a federal suitability determination, not a formal US security clearance, so the clearance requirement is set to None.
The title says 'Associate' (implying junior/entry level), but the qualifications gate on a minimum of 2 years of AI/ML experience and 2 years of Azure experience, which better fits a Mid-level band.
Vector databases are listed in the requirements section as 'Azure Databases'; the requirement is for vector database experience broadly (to support semantic search/RAG), not a specific named product.
Power Automate and Power BI appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than the required qualifications section, so they are treated as preferred.
AI chatbot development experience appears in the required section but is closely tied to the broader LLM/RAG requirement already captured; listed separately as preferred since it reads as a sub-type of the LLM application experience already marked required.
The alt SOC (15-2051 Data Scientists) reflects the significant AI/ML modeling and LLM work described, though the primary day-to-day work is full-stack application development.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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