Senior Software Development Engineer II - Agentic AI & LLM platforms (#26-074)

About this role

Strategic Analysis, Inc. (SA) Is seeking a Software Engineer to support the Agentic AI & LLM platform at Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)


Overview:

The GRACE team at ARPA-H is building the next generation of agentic AI to transform how the agency accelerates research, makes decisions, and ships products at scale. GRACE is ARPA-H's production AI assistant, and we are evolving it into an ecosystem of autonomous, multi-agent systems.
The team is a small, startup-minded team that ships fast and owns what they build end-to-end. They are looking for an SDE II who is hungry to contribute to a real production system, not a sandbox. The best person for this role communicates clearly, collaborates without ego, and brings genuine empathy for the users whose work they are making better. The person is a self-starter with a high bar and a high sense of urgency. He or She plays well with others and makes the people around him or her better.


Roles and Responsibilities:

- Build Agentic AI Systems
- Build LLM-Powered Features
- Own the Backend
- Contribute to Infrastructure


Requirements:

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
- Proven experience in high-velocity environments where you contributed to shipping real products end-to-end
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one other backend language; familiarity with modern backend frameworks and async patterns
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and software design patterns
- Experience building and operating systems on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and working within CI/CD pipelines
- Clear, direct communicator who gives and receives feedback well, works with empathy, and makes the people around them better
- Self-starter with a high bar and high sense of urgency; you do not wa...