AI Solutions Engineer - Agent Development

Job overview

The AI Solutions Engineer - Agent Development role is onsite in Herndon, VA, with an annual salary of $91,000–$134,000. The engineer joins Unissant’s MissionWorks team to build AI-enabled capabilities for customer and internal use cases. Unissant delivers technology and domain expertise to agencies supporting national health and safety missions. The role turns defined mission needs into AI agents, prototypes, workflow automations, integrations, and reusable software components. It contributes to practical, tested solutions that can mature into secure operational capabilities through collaboration, iteration, and user feedback.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain AI agents, prototypes, workflow automations, software components, integrations, and proof-of-concepts
• use Python and, where needed, C++
• design agent workflows, prompts, tool use, retrieval, human-review steps, and output evaluation
• integrate APIs, data sources, cloud services, and business systems
• build, test, debug, document, and refine solutions
• support demonstrations, user feedback, and technical troubleshooting
• contribute reusable code and implementation documentation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

ai solutions engineer

agent development

artificial intelligence

python

c++

ai agents

workflow automation

apis

herndon va

unissant

full-time

$91k–$134k

security clearance eligibility

missionworks

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Bachelor’s degree required; eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance required; limited travel may be required.

About the employer

Unissant is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.