Thorben ConsultingRemote
Full-Stack Engineer – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
United States of America
Full Time
3 hours ago
$150,000 - $160,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
TypeScriptReactNext.jsFastAPINode.jsServer-Sent EventsWebSocketsAutomated testingJestDistributed tracingOpenTelemetryAWS BedrockAmazon S3AWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsAWS CDKTS/SCI security clearance with polygraphSecurity+ certificationPrompt engineeringModel fine-tuningGenAI/LLM integrationDoD identity providers integrationCAC/PIV authenticationAIMLGenAILLMAgenticPlaywrightAWSLambdaS3Bedrock
About this role
Thorben Consulting, LLC is seeking a talented Full-Stack Engineer – AI/ML to help shape the future of human-in-the-loop experiences within a cutting-edge GenAI Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform. This role offers the opportunity to build highly impactful, AI-powered solutions by owning the complete user experience and designing critical platform features.
Responsibilities:
- Run an engineering practice driven by evaluation, testing, and verification — changes are proven with tests, traces, and metrics before they are called done
- Operate agentic systems fluently (MCP tools, Bedrock/LLM calls, streaming, distributed traces) in support of GenAI IDP document classification and field extraction workflows
- Work within DCSA classified environments (IL5/IL6) following DoD security baselines and STIG compliance requirements
- Support the GenAI IDP solution: prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, evaluation logic for document section classification and extracted field validation
- Use AI coding assistants heavily as daily drivers, while remaining skeptical of their output and holding it to the same evidentiary bar as any other code
Requirements:
- MUST be a US Citizen
- MUST have an active DoD TOP SECRET clearance or be eligible to obtain one
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience building production web applications with TypeScript and a modern React framework (React/Next.js)
- Experience building and operating backend services or APIs (e.g., FastAPI, Node) that a frontend consumes
- Experience with real-time or streaming interfaces (Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, or equivalent), including handling reconnection and out-of-order events
- Experience with automated testing at the unit and end-to-end level (e.g., jest, Playwright) as part of the definition of done
- Experience diagnosing defects across the stack — from a client-side symptom to the backend route or payload that caused it — using logs and traces as evidence
- Current, active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph
- Current, active Security+ or equivalent certificate for privileged user access
- Experience building interfaces for AI/agentic or other long-running, streaming systems (token-by-token output, tool-call visualization, document classification result rendering, run/trace inspection)
- Experience with GenAI/LLM integration: prompt engineering workflows, model evaluation dashboards, fine-tuning pipeline UIs
- Experience deploying applications in AWS GovCloud or classified (IL5/IL6) environments
- Experience integrating with DoD identity providers and CAC/PIV authentication
- Experience with client and server state management and optimistic-update patterns
- Proficiency using AI coding assistants as a daily driver, with the judgment to verify their output against tests and traces before merging
- Experience with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) from the application side
- Experience with AWS services: Amazon Bedrock, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CDK
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Associate-level or higher AWS certification