Full Stack Engineer

About PeratonPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.About The RolePeraton is seeking a talented and motivated Full Stack Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and External Integrations to join a dynamic team building and operating a cutting-edge Agentic AI platform.In this role, you will be at the forefront of designing, developing, and maintaining the integrations and intelligent agent capabilities that power a next-generation decision-support platform - spanning delivery, infrastructure, runtime operations, and platform health. You will work across the full stack to connect AI agents with diverse external data sources, package real-world capabilities as reliable agent tools, and ensure that the systems you build are secure, scalable, and production-ready. If you are passionate about applied AI, thrive in fast-moving environments, and take pride in building platforms that real users depend on, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact supporting critical missions.Location: Columbus, Ohio - candidates must currently reside in the area or be willing to relocate.Key Responsibilities:Design and build integrations to external sources of information, including public APIs, licensed data feeds, partner systems, customer enterprise systems, web content, document repositories, and structured databasesPackage external capabilities as agent tools and skills with clean interfaces, predictable inputs/outputs, sound error handling, and documentation usable by both AI agents and human configuratorsDevelop and maintain full-stack components spanning FastAPI/Python backends, React frontends, Docker containerization, and PostgreSQLBuild and consume web APIs (REST, GraphQL, or comparable), handling production integration concerns such as authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retry/backoff, schema mapping, deduplication, and cachingImplement and maintain workflow and task orchestration pipelines using systems such as Airflow, Prefect, Celery, or comparable agent orchestration patternsIntegrate LLMs into production or near-production applications, leveraging APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS BedrockApply security best practices specific to agentic and external integration work - including secrets management, OAuth and API-key handling, defensive parsing, and prompt-injection awarenessContribute to the build-out and operation of the Agentic AI platform across delivery, infrastructure, runtime operations, and platform healthCollaborate across teams with a product mindset, keeping the end-user experience central to technical decisionsCollaborates with stakeholders on workflowsQualificationsRequired Qualifications:Minimum of a BS degree with 5 years of experience, MS degree with 3 years, or PhD with meaningful exposure to AI/ML systems or LLM-based productsHands-on experience building with AI agents - multi-step reasoning, tool use, RAG pipelines, or autonomous task executionStrong Python skills (3.12+); comfort with async/await patterns, type hints, and modern Python toolingFamiliarity with agentic frameworks and an understanding of the underlying concepts (chains, tool calling, agent loops) that transfer across toolsComfort operating with some ambiguity in a fast-moving environmentClearance Requirements:US Citizenship is requiredAbility to obtain a Public Trust Desired Qualifications:Production experience with agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic tool-use, or comparable) and a sound point of view on when each is the right toolExperience designing and operating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems - chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and grounding/citation patternsExperience integrating with knowledge graphs, document stores, or curated content repositories as agent-accessible sourcesExperience evaluating agent and LLM systems - building eval harnesses, golden datasets, regression testing, and observability for non-deterministic systemsExposure to orchestration patterns: supervisor agents, parallel tool calls, human-in-the-loop flows, DAG-based pipeline executionExperience building plugin or extension systems: dynamic code loading, container isolation, API mixin patternsFamiliarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or agent observabilityFamiliarity with federal compliance environments: FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2/3, IronBank container hardening, OPA policy enforcement, or Section 508 accessibilityExperience with observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar distributed tracing/metrics stacksExperience with container orchestration (Docker SDK, Kubernetes) and distributed storage (S3, MinIO, JuiceFS)Prior work building internal tooling, enterprise automation products, or platforms for government customersDetailsTarget Salary Range: $86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.