AI Coding Tools Engineer

Job Title

AI Coding Tools Engineer

Chantilly, VA.

The AI Coding Tools Engineer (GenAI & Agentic Systems) evaluates, pilots, operationalizes, maintains, and scales adoption of secure AI coding assistant tools across the enterprise.

• AI Coding Assistant Evaluation
  • Conduct structured evaluations of leading enterprise AI coding assistants, including features, model performance, security, integration complexity, and developer ergonomics.
• AI Coding Assistant Piloting, Launching & Adoption Support
  • Integrate coding assistants into IDEs (VS Code), terminals/CLI workflows, and source control ecosystems.
  • Configure AI guardrails, including content filtering, prompt shielding, and role‑based access controls aligned with enterprise and NIST requirements.
  • Work with Security Team to prepare ATO evidence, including SSP updates, control narratives, risk registers, and continuous monitoring artifacts.
  • Work with Training and Enablement Team to develop training, compliance, and end‑user/best practice guides.
  • Support Coding Assistant "office hours" to support developer enablement and accelerate adoption.
  • Collect user feedback, track adoption metrics, and iteratively refine usage patterns for different developer roles.
• AI Coding Assistant Operations & Maintenance Support
  • Monitor platform health and guardrail performance.
  • Support analysis and remediation of integration or platform issues impacting the coding assistants.
  • Track, evaluate, and support application of coding assistant updates and patches.

• Minimum 2 years of experience with leading AI Coding Assistants.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, developer experience engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
• Experience integrating or evaluating LLM powered developer tools (e.g., code completion, chat‑based programming assistance, test generation, refactoring tools).
• Understanding of NIST compliance and government cloud environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise Dev Sec Ops  practices, modern IDEs, and secure software development life cycles.

• Direct experience leading enterprise adoption of AI coding assistants (pilot design, rollout planning, governance alignment).
• Hands on experience with Amazon Bedrock Gov Cloud, Azure OpenAI (Gov), and/or Vertex AI (Assured Workloads) for production workloads.
• Experience building multi‑step agent workflows on Bedrock Agents, implementing Bedrock Guardrails, or building RAG/semantic search systems via Vertex AI Search.
• Experience supporting ATO artifacts and design/testing of controls.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans, or individuals with disabilities.