AI Engineering Jobs in Washington, DC

Scale AI

We are seeking a Principal Architect to drive the design, development, and deployment of our agentic AI products in a fast-paced, collaborative, extremely high-visibility environment. In this role, you will lead a team of 80+ engineers, providing both strategic and technical guidance. You’ll be responsible for high-impact architectural decisions, cross-company collaboration, and executive level engagements.

$298k - $373k

As a Deployed Engineer, you will work on challenging applied AI problems, focusing on production systems that support real-world missions for defense, civilian, and intelligence customers. You will help design, deploy, and operate AI agents within secure, regulated, and high-stakes environments. This role offers a fast feedback loop, tangible mission impact, and the opportunity to directly influence the deployment of AI agents across the federal landscape. You will operate in environments demanding security, reliability, compliance (FedRAMP, IL levels, etc.), and operational rigor, working closely with government engineers and system integrators throughout the entire lifecycle.

$185k - $300k

Anthropic

As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be an Applied AI Engineer supporting a dedicated national security mission program. You will serve as the customer's trusted technical advisor, working closely with their engineering and mission teams as they build and ship new capabilities powered by Claude. This involves advising on architecture design decisions, developing evaluation frameworks, and guiding them through cutting-edge implementation patterns for LLMs. You will combine deep engineering expertise and cyber domain knowledge with customer-facing skills to help the customer unlock the full potential of Claude and move their mission capabilities closer to the frontier, while maintaining Anthropic's high standards for safety and reliability.

$280k - $320k

Salesforce is seeking experienced Technical Builders to serve as Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs). In this role, you will design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions directly within enterprise customer environments. You will collaborate with a Delivery Team, partnering closely with a Deployment Strategist to co-build solutions that go live in production from day one. Engagements will vary from large strategic customers to multiple accounts, all involving real code, real environments, and measurable business impact. This position focuses on configuration, customization, and full-stack deployment, delivering solutions that customers rely on. This specific posting is for roles supporting Global Public Sector teams, including Government, Nonprofit, and Education.

$89k - $288k

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is seeking a Systems Engineer to join their team and play a critical role in defining system requirements, designing architectures, and integrating the company's technology onto autonomous vehicles and defense systems. This role blends systems engineering, robotics, software deployment, architecture, integration, and real-world testing. You will work in both office and field environments, dedicating significant time to deploying, testing, and validating software on autonomous systems in dynamic, operationally relevant settings. Collaboration with software engineers, autonomy engineers, perception teams, data scientists, and field operators will be key to ensuring systems are robust, reliable, and ready for deployment.

$140k - $180k

OpenAI

We are seeking a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will collaborate with government agencies, policymakers, and public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You will then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production, designing an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. This role involves deeply embedding with sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API and other OpenAI foundational technologies like Codex.

$211k - $302k

OpenAI

We are seeking a hands-on Applied AI Engineer with deep cybersecurity experience and a product mindset to help government and national security customers apply frontier AI to critical cyber missions. You will bring practical expertise in areas such as red teaming, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and threat hunting, ideally developed through work with the defense and intelligence sector. Working directly with cyber operators, security researchers, and engineering teams, you’ll identify high-value applications, write code, build and evaluate AI-powered tools and agentic workflows, and move solutions from prototype into secure operational use. You’ll design architectures using OpenAI models, APIs, and existing security tooling, grounded in customers’ mission requirements and operational constraints. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product, and Security teams to deliver measurable improvements in cyber capabilities and translate customer experience into better models and products.

$211k - $302k