AI Engineer at GovPilot
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Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and shipping features across multiple codebases while rethinking how software development itself works when AI agents can write, test, and ship code. The position suits an engineer deeply experienced with AI coding tools who is comfortable moving across languages and stacks, designing agentic workflows, and establishing the safety guardrails and evaluation processes needed to trust AI-generated output in production.
Senior level · Remote · 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
Roughly 118,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 71,000–177,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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 is simply 'AI Engineer' with no level modifier; seniority is assessed as Senior based on the expectation of deep autonomy, cross-codebase ownership, and influencing the development lifecycle — not a defined backlog or managed ramp-up.
AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) are listed under the primary 'What You Bring' requirements block and are treated as a hard gate; the named tools are captured as alternatives to one another since the JD frames them as interchangeable.
Broad LLM/AI engineering fluency is a clear hard gate throughout the requirements section, though no specific platform (OpenAI, Anthropic API, etc.) is named beyond the coding-assistant tools.
Agentic workflow experience in production is listed under 'What Makes You Stand Out' — a secondary, aspirational section — so it is marked preferred.
No specific programming language, framework, or cloud platform is named as required; the JD explicitly prizes polyglot comfort over any particular stack, so no individual language is extracted as a skill.
No compensation figures are provided beyond 'competitive salary'.
The posting explicitly states the company cannot sponsor employment visas; candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in the US.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role is primarily software delivery but is genuinely novel (AI-driven development process design), making 15-1299 a plausible runner-up.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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