AI Application Developer Security Clearance

Position: AI Application Developer with Security Clearance
Location: Alexandria

About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. About

The Role Peraton is seeking an AI Application Developer to design and build production-grade AI systems and lead the next evolution of software delivery across Government (Federal, State, and Local) programs by operationalizing AI s role is focused on embedding AI across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) focused on LLM integration, agent-based systems, and AI-native software engineering, Dev Sec Ops  with AI
-transforming how systems are built, tested, secured, and operated via AI driven development. You will design and implement AI-orchestrated, agent-driven workflows leveraging cloud-native platforms and secure government AI environments (including GenAI.mil). The objective is to move beyond isolated AI use cases and deliver repeatable, governed, and measurable AI-enabled systems that accelerate delivery to scalable, mission-ready AI solutions. This is an engineer role for someone who understands that real impact comes from orchestrating models, data, and workflows into production-grade capabilities.

Location:

Candidate must be local to the Columbus, Ohio area. What You'll Do
* Architect and implement AI-enabled solutions that accelerate code generation, testing, security, documentation, and deployment

* Design and build LLM-powered applications and agentic systems for software development, testing, security, and operations

* Design and operationalize agentic, multi-step workflows (e.g., code → test → validate → deploy) with appropriate human-in-the-loop controls

* Leverage and integrate GenAI.mil models and commercial LLMs with cloud-native AI services into secure, scalable development environments

* Build and integrate AI microservices and APIs into cloud-native platforms

* Build future-state architecture and data pipelines that ground AI outputs in authoritative, mission-relevant data

* Establish prompt frameworks, chaining strategies and reusable AI patterns that scale across teams and programs

* Integrate AI into IT operations (ticket triage, root cause analysis, observability, incident response) to enable closed-loop automation

* Define and track performance metrics (cycle time, defect reduction, cost-per-feature, SLA improvements) tied to AI adoption

* Lead technical adoption across teams, mentoring engineers and standardizing best practices

* Ensure compliance with federal security, data governance, and AI usage policies

* Implement RAG architectures using mission data (codebases, documentation, operational data) to ground AI outputs

Critical

Skills:

AI Orchestration & Systems Thinking LLM & Agentic Workflow Development
* Design and implement multi-agent orchestration, tool integration and workflow automation with tool use, memory, and feedback loops

* Balance automation, control, and reliability in mission-critical environments

* Prompt engineering, prompt chaining, and reusable prompt architectures

* Evaluation frameworks for output quality, reliability, and drift

Data & Retrieval Strategy
* Build and optimize RAG architectures and secure data access patterns

* Structure and govern data (codebases, runbooks, tickets, documentation) for effective AI consumption

* Design, build and maintain Vector databases and semantic search

* Ensure data lineage, integrity, secure access patterns and classification compliance

Model & Platform Orchestration
* Orchestrate across multiple models and endpoints,…