Software Engineer - Agentic Systems

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Chantilly, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

At Rincon Research Corporation, our primary business is innovating, developing, and fielding digital signal processing (DSP) products and services for the United States Defense and Intelligence Communities in support of national security.

Rincon Research Corporation (RRC), an employee-owned company, is an employee-owned company, is seeking a Software Engineer – Agentic Systems to support the design, development, integration, testing, and deployment software solutions that address complex mission and operational needs. This role will have a particular focus on the integration and application of emerging artificial intelligence technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI capabilities, within existing and future software systems.

The successful candidate will bring strong software engineering fundamentals and hands‑on experience developing and integrating production software, along with an interest in applying AI and agent‑based technologies to real‑world mission challenges. This individual will work across the development lifecycle—from architecture and rapid prototyping through integration, testing, containerization, deployment, and operational support. The Software Engineer will collaborate with engineering teams, Program Managers, Business Development, and government customers to translate mission needs into effective technical solutions.

Come join the team that is creating cutting edge signal processing and geolocation systems for the future!

• Design, develop, integrate, test, and maintain mission-focused software applications and services using Python and other modern programming languages.
• Design and implement APIs, backend services, data processing components, and integrations with external systems.
• Apply sound software engineering principles, including modular design, code reuse, version control, automated testing, documentation, and peer review.
• Integrate software with APIs, databases, data platforms, enterprise services, mission systems, and third‑party technologies.
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, regression, and end‑to‑end automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Build, package, and deploy applications using Docker and other containerization technologies.
• Support deployment and operation of software within cloud, on‑premises, hybrid, and restricted computing environments.
• Participate in architecture and design activities, including evaluating technical approaches, frameworks, libraries, and integration patterns.
• Explore and integrate LLMs, AI‑enabled services, and agentic capabilities into software applications where they provide mission value.
• Develop AI‑enabled workflows that may incorporate model APIs, tool/function calling, retrieval, data sources, external services, and multi‑step processing.
• Evaluate and test AI‑enabled capabilities for functionality, reliability, performance, and appropriate behavior.
• Implement application logging, monitoring, tracing, error handling, and other capabilities necessary to troubleshoot and operate production systems.
• Support CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  processes for building, testing, scanning, packaging, and deploying software.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across application code, integrations, containers, infrastructure, and external dependencies.
• Collaborate directly with engineers, program teams, and government customers to understand mission requirements and translate them into working software.
• Stay current with emerging software and AI technologies and identify practical opportunities to incorporate them into mission solutions.

• US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
• Current TS/SCI Clearance
• 5+ years of professional software engineering or software development experience, or…