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Generative & Agentic AI Engineer

Posted 2 months ago

OfficeReston, VA OR Somerville, MA140k - 180k USD

hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Generative & Agentic AI Engineer. Please see details below:

About the Role

As an Engineer on the Generative & Agentic AI team, you will play a hands-on role in building, deploying, and operating AI capabilities that power Babel Street’s intelligence applications. You will work closely with senior AI leaders, product teams, and engineers to implement generative and agentic AI solutions that support investigative, analytical, and operational workflows across the platform. 

This is an execution-focused role for an engineer with strong foundations in machine learning and generative AI who is excited to work on real-world, mission-driven applications. You will contribute directly to LLM and SLM pipelines, retrieval and grounding systems, agent workflows, and AI-enabled features—while learning how to deliver AI that is safe, reliable, cost-efficient, and production-ready. 

This is a hybrid role to be based out of either our Reston, VA/Washington DC office or our Somerville MA office.

About the Company

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the world’s most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. They deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage.  The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world.  Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K.

### Role Focus:

This role spans three practical execution areas: 

Generative AI & Model Development 

You will help implement and operate LLM- and SLM-based systems, contributing to prompt development, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference optimization. You will support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, embeddings, and grounding techniques to ensure AI outputs are accurate, explainable, and aligned with intelligence use cases. 

Agentic AI & Workflow Automation 

You will assist in building and integrating agent-based workflows that automate analytical tasks, connect platform services, and support intelligence applications. This includes implementing agent logic, tool-use patterns, and basic orchestration under the guidance of senior engineers. 

AI Engineering & Production Delivery 

You will help productionize AI capabilities using modern AI SDLC tools and practices, contributing to evaluation, testing, telemetry, and guardrails that reduce hallucinations and ensure safe behavior. You will work within established governance frameworks to ensure AI features are measurable, reliable, and cost-aware. 

### What you will do:
  • 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. 
  • ### What you will bring:

    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. 
  •  

    Education: 

    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field required. 
    Advanced degree is a plus but not required. 

    Job details
    Workplace
    Office
    Location
    Reston, VA OR Somerville, MA
    Salary
    140k - 180k USD
    per year

    Hello! We are a Bromley and Beckenham based web design and online marketing company providing a range of digital media and marketing services for businesses of all sizes. Our web design services in Bromley and Beckenham will help businesses grow. We also provide Google AdWords, Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media management to help increase your website visitors, enquiries and sales!

    Industry
    Online Media
    Headquarters
    Bromley, Kent
    Founded
    2010
    Company location
    Bromley, Kent
    Specialties
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