Principal, Agentic AI Practice
Jobgether
$172,900–$272,400from the description
Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical and strategic leadership role focused on building and scaling an agentic AI practice for government and public sector clients. Day-to-day work spans hands-on prototyping of autonomous AI and large language model solutions, developing reference architectures for secure enterprise environments, leading customer demonstrations, and guiding go-to-market strategy. Suited to a deeply technical professional with government security clearance and experience in solutions architecture or sales engineering.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“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
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)
The title 'Principal, Agentic AI Practice' is a practice-leadership label, not a standard engineering ladder level. The role is advertised as Principal but the actual scope — 8+ years in technical sales/solutions architecture, customer-facing leadership, hands-on prototyping — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor, not a true org-wide Principal engineer. Seniority is set to Senior accordingly.
The clearance requirement states 'Secret minimum; Top Secret and SCI eligibility strongly preferred.' The hard gate is Secret, but TS/SCI eligibility is framed as strongly preferred rather than a firm requirement. Clearance is set to TopSecretSci to reflect the practical bar for this government-focused role, but hiring managers should note that Secret-cleared candidates are technically eligible per the posting.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent professional experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
SOC classification is Medium confidence. The role blends solutions architecture, pre-sales/sales engineering, hands-on AI prototyping, and go-to-market leadership — it does not map cleanly to a single BLS occupation. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best fit for a hybrid technical-strategic practice lead; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the runner-up given the hands-on prototyping and architecture emphasis.
FedRAMP and ATO appear together as a single preferred requirement ('federal authorization frameworks such as FedRAMP or ATO processes'); they are listed as alternatives on one skill. AWS GovCloud and secure hybrid architectures are also preferred, listed under the preferred-experience paragraph.
'Solutions architecture' is retained as a required skill because the JD explicitly gates on 'solutions architecture … or similar strategic technical roles' in the Requirements section and repeatedly calls for reference architecture development — it represents a concrete, assessable capability even though it is not a named tool.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): solutions architecture.
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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