Senior Software Engineering

Senior Agentic Software Engineer

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

Do you want to engineer software systems that contribute to solving our nation's most critical problems? Do you want to work alongside engineers, scientists, and domain specialists that are experts in their fields? Are you passionate about best practices for delivering the highest quality software solutions?

You'll contribute to diverse projects in support of our government sponsors while benefiting from meaningful learning and growth opportunities. MITRE is seeking a Senior Agentic Software Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate mission-focused software systems and data platforms using state-of-the-art agentic and AI-enabled software development techniques. In this role, you'll apply modern tools and practices to develop prototypes and field-ready capabilities, advise sponsors on effective adoption, and help establish guidance, best practices, and guardrails for responsible use. You'll deliver features and technical solutions, shape system architecture and engineering process improvements, and lead both sustained program execution and rapid response mission needs.

The applicant should be prepared to work across multiple domain areas and to support a mix of standard program work and urgent, high-impact enablement tasks as organizational priorities evolve. Design, develop, test, and deploy mission software and data platforms using agentic/AI-assisted workflows with clear human accountability and review

Define, implement, and enforce guardrails for agentic engineering (approved tools/models, data handling, secrets, provenance, auditability, safe prompting)

Establish evaluation and quality gates for AI-generated artifacts (tests, static/security analysis, coding standards, CI checks, acceptance criteria)

Architect, build, and operate distributed cloud systems (AWS/multi-cloud) using agentic techniques to manage performance, resilience, cost, and troubleshooting

Design and integrate APIs, backend services, and data flows; build and operate data pipelines and orchestration where applicable

Automate DevSecOps and CI/CD with AI-aware controls (supply-chain security, dependency/container/IaC scanning, SAST/DAST, policy-as-code) and repeatable releases

Produce and maintain documentation, runbooks, and compliance-ready evidence for AI-assisted engineering, including observability integrations (e.g., Splunk)

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute to this job step

Entrepreneurial, innovative, and collaborative spirit and the curiosity to explore and push the boundaries of software development and software solutions

Strong software engineering fundamentals and Python proficiency, including secure coding, code review, automated testing, and maintainable design patterns

Hands-on experience using agentic/AI-assisted development tools (e.g., copilot, code agents, test generation, PR review automation) and integrating them into the Software Development Life Cycle

Experience designing guardrails for AI-enabled engineering (tool/model selection, prompt/context hygiene, secrets handling, provenance, auditability, and policy/compliance constraints)

Experience establishing quality/evaluation practices for AI-generated outputs (automated checks, unit/integration tests, static/security analysis, and human-in-the-loop review standards)

Leadership/enablement skills: mentoring, setting engineering standards, and advising stakeholders/customers on responsible adoption and change management

S Government issued Security Clearance. S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, etc.

Active Top-Secret clearance preferred

Proven experience building, deploying and operating LLM/agent systems (e.g., Mature evaluation and quality practices for LLMs/agents (e.g., Platform engineering/DevSecOps expertise: CI/CD delivery platforms, artifact management, and software supply-chain/provenance controls (e.g., SBOMs, signing/attestation/SLSA, policy-as-code)

Cloud-native operations depth across Kubernetes and IaC/multi-cloud, with strong observability (tracing/logs/agent telemetry, audit logging/Splunk) and MLOps/model serving (hosting, gatewaying, rate/cost controls, monitoring)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.