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Babel Street · 17 hours ago

Sr. Engineer, Generative & Agentic AI

Reston, Virginia, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$210K/yr - $240K/yr

10+ years exp

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. As Senior Director of Generative & Agentic AI, you will architect and scale AI capabilities, ensuring mission readiness and integration with products, while collaborating with leadership to execute the AI strategy.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataEnterprise SoftwareLocation Based ServicesReal TimeSoftware

Senior Management

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Execute the generative AI strategy, including LLM vs. SLM and RAG vs. fine-tuning decision frameworks

Architect scalable, multilingual inference pipelines optimized for performance, reliability, and AI economics

Lead model tooling selection and partnerships across proprietary and open-weight ecosystems

Design agent architectures that automate investigations and cross-platform analytical workflows

Build agentic systems that leverage the Knowledge Graph for reasoning, task planning, and orchestration

Introduce agentic capabilities that improve internal engineering and operational workflows

Support Product and Engineering teams in embedding AI capabilities into customer workflows

Contribute to AI productionization through governance, telemetry, automated testing, and adversarial evaluation

Help design and implement safeguards, guardrails, and drift-monitoring controls

Lead and develop AI engineers and applied scientists through mentorship and technical leadership

Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Data leaders to ensure aligned execution

Represent AI capabilities and strategy internally and, as needed, with customers and partners

Qualification

Generative AIAgentic AIAI infrastructureWorkflow automationInference optimizationTechnical judgmentCommunication skillsTeam leadershipCollaboration

Required

10+ years of experience in AI/ML, applied analytics, or advanced data systems, including 3–5 years leading technical teams delivering production GenAI capabilities

Demonstrated experience applying generative and agentic AI capabilities to intelligence applications, including investigative analysis, entity and relationship discovery, pattern detection, and analyst-driven workflows in high-stakes or mission-critical environments

Strong technical expertise in agentic AI, workflow automation, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation techniques

Experience designing systems that minimize hallucinations and enforce safe, predictable AI behavior

Hands-on experience with cloud-native AI infrastructure, inference optimization, and cost-aware system design

Ability to translate complex AI concepts into practical, mission-ready product capabilities

Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field required

Preferred

Experience operating in regulated, high-stakes, or mission-critical environments is strongly preferred

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Benefits

Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family!

Retirement Plans: Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.

Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.

Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.

Company

Babel Street

Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.

Founded in 2009

Reston, Virginia, USA

201-500 employees

http://babelstreet.com

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