Washington, DC
AI Engineer Jobs in Washington
Government, defense and cleared work — heavy demand for security and systems engineers. AI engineers build LLM-powered features: retrieval pipelines, tool calling, evaluation harnesses and cost/latency tuning. The fastest-growing STEM title in the US market.
- Open roles
- 4
- Remote-eligible
- 0
- Sponsorship signals
- 0
- Median salary
- —
Open ai engineer roles in Washington
- AI Engineer (Multiple Roles)T-Mobile · Bellevue, WashingtononsitemidPosted 2 days ago
- Sr. Technical Program Manager , Leo Inventory Fulfillment Technology (LIFT)Amazon · Redmond, Washington, USAonsiteseniorPosted 2 days ago
- Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer-AI Security (Network, Security, LLM)Zscaler · Bellevue, Washington, USA; San Jose, California, USAhybridstaffQuick applyPosted 2 days ago
- AI Engineer – Forward Deployed Engineering, U.S. Public Sector (Federal Focus)Databricks · Maryland; Virginia; Washington, D.C.onsitemidQuick applyPosted 2 days ago
Hiring in Washington right now
Washington employers posted 4 ai engineer roles in the last five days. Few of these listings publish a salary range; national bands for this role run $140k–$240k.
Local hiring skews toward LLMs, RAG, Python, Vector Databases. If your resume doesn't name those tools in the same words the job description uses, an ATS keyword filter is the most likely reason you never hear back.
Skills to lead with
- LLMs
- RAG
- Python
- Vector Databases
- Prompt Engineering
- Evals
Companies hiring in Washington
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