AI Software Engineer

The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) provides operations support services and business solutions to the community of 10,000 House Members, Officers and staff.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience.
• Broad and deep expertise in AI development, AI infrastructure, and AI policy, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of secure authentication patterns such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and MSAL.

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability (KSA) and Competency Requirements:

• Experience using LLMs, RAG, MCP servers, and other AI development resources, including cloud tools such as AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI.
• Strong experience working with Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), including schema design, performance tuning, and query optimization.
• Strong full-stack development skills and proficiency with modern programming languages, web development, relational databases, DevOps, and Unix-like systems.
• Expertise with building Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pipelines and enterprise ETL tools such as Pentaho, AWS Glue, Hadoop, and Apache Airflow.
• Ability to develop APIs (web services) using web messaging or service protocols and integrate many services into a single cohesive application.
• Hands-on experience with containerized applications using Docker.
• Experience deploying and operating applications in Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency using git (particularly GitLab) for source control and issue tracking in collaborative workflows.
• Experience working within CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code cloud service enablement.
• Ability to design and implement secure, scalable RESTful APIs.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production environments.
• Familiarity with secure authentication patterns, including OAuth2 and OpenID Connect. In particular, implementing the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) in conjunction with Entra/Azure App Registrations.
• Employees within this position are expected to demonstrate the following HIR Technical Competencies: Analytics; Application Administration and Integration; Hardware Installation and Management; Information Management; Information Resources Strategy and Planning; Information Systems/Network Security; Knowledge of Emerging Trends and Industry Best Practices; Network Management; Project Management; Quality Assurance and Testing; and Web Development and Management.

Continued employment is contingent upon satisfactorily completing a criminal history records check (or other applicable security clearance) and a pre-identified position only.