Senior AI Integration Developer at Peraton
Red Bank, NJ
$112,000–$179,000from the description
Aug 9, 2026
Red Bank, NJ
Sep 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building an AI assistant capability — including a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and associated tooling — integrated into an existing web application used for RF spectrum monitoring in support of the Department of Defense. The work spans locally-hosted LLM deployment in air-gapped environments, prompt engineering, agentic AI patterns, and full-stack integration across a FastAPI/React/PostgreSQL stack. It suits an experienced engineer who can bridge applied AI and operational software development.
Senior level · 8+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Secret clearance · Full-time
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists three possible work locations — Red Bank, NJ; Basking Ridge, NJ; and Silver Spring, MD. The CBSA is mapped to the New York–Newark–Jersey City metro (which covers the NJ sites); the Silver Spring, MD site falls in the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV CBSA (47900). Candidates may need to be local to one of these two metros.
Experience requirements are tiered by degree: 8 years with a Bachelor's, 6 with a Master's, or 3+ with a PhD. The 8-year figure is used as the role-level minimum since no degree is hard-required.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'ability to obtain/maintain a Secret clearance' — candidates need not hold an active clearance at time of application, though an active Secret or higher is listed as a desired qualification.
PostgreSQL appears only in the stack description narrative, not in the required qualifications block, so it is marked as preferred.
LangChain, LangGraph, FastMCP, RAG, vector databases, and GPU benchmarking all appear under Desired Qualifications and are marked preferred accordingly.
The role is genuinely hybrid between applied AI/ML engineering and software development; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as a runner-up given the MCP/AI-tooling focus, but the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping software.
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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