Full Stack Developer — Global Health & AI (REMOTE ROLE)
Company: ICF
Location: Rockville, MD 20850 (Remote)
Salary: $81,499 - $138,549 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-07
About this role
Description
# Full Stack Developer — Global Health & AI
ICF’s Global Health and Development (GHD) line of business, part of the Health, People, and Human Services (HPHS) Group, is seeking a Full Stack Developer to build applications that apply AI across global health and survey programs. You will develop applications, APIs, and data services that help shorten survey timelines, reduce costs, and equip national institutions with AI-supported tools. Working with AI engineers, survey experts, designers, and partner-country teams, you will take solutions from prototype to production, including secure cloud applications and offline tools for low-connectivity settings.
*This position can be remote within the United States, with occasional international travel.*
*It is contingent upon award of program funding.*
Key Responsibilities
- **Build a governed data-access application** that lets users explore data in natural language. This includes the authentication, authorization, audit logging, and disclosure-risk controls that make that safe. In this application, access control is a core safeguard for respondent privacy.
- **Develop offline-first field tools** for interviewers and field supervisors. These tools must work reliably on low-end devices with intermittent connectivity and sync cleanly when a connection returns.
- **Integrate AI services into applications**, working with the Applied AI Engineer to expose model pipelines through well-designed APIs, including MCP connectors that make DHS data available in AI assistants.
- **Spec out and build products with agentic coding tools.** Write the specifications that drive agent-led development, then review, test, and own the code that results.
- **Design data services and schemas** for survey metadata, microdata, and the results of AI-assisted processing.
- **Ensure production readiness and sustainable handover.** Write testable, well-tested code that passes required quality gates, and produce clear d...