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Babel Street · 23 hours ago

Generative & Agentic AI Engineer

Reston, Virginia, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. As an Engineer on the Generative & Agentic AI team, you will build, deploy, and operate AI capabilities that enhance Babel Street’s intelligence applications.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataEnterprise SoftwareLocation Based ServicesReal TimeSoftware

Senior Management

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain LLM and SLM pipelines, including prompt engineering, inference, and evaluation

Support RAG pipelines, embeddings, and retrieval systems used in intelligence applications

Assist in building agent workflows that automate analytical or operational tasks

Write clean, maintainable code (Python or others) to support AI services and integrations

Contribute to AI evaluation, testing, and hallucination-mitigation techniques

Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) to improve development velocity and quality

Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into user-facing workflows

Follow established AI governance, safety, and cost-optimization practices

Qualification

LLMSLM experiencePython programmingMachine learning conceptsRAG pipelinesAgent-based systemsAI/ML toolingCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI roles

Hands-on experience working with LLMs and/or SLMs, including prompting, inference, or fine-tuning

Experience building or contributing to RAG pipelines, embeddings, or retrieval systems

Familiarity with agent-based systems or workflow automation (academic, professional, or open-source)

Strong programming skills in Python; experience with common libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)

Solid foundation in machine learning concepts (training, evaluation, overfitting, metrics)

Experience using or contributing to modern AI/ML tooling and workflows (ML pipelines, evaluation scripts, model serving)

Ability to work in a collaborative, fast-moving, mission-driven environment

Preferred

Experience applying AI to intelligence, investigative, analytical, or risk-related applications

Familiarity with vector databases, graph databases, or knowledge graphs

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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