We are seeking to hire an AI / AI Agent Adoption and Automation Lead to join our team working for leading US Supplier to DoD and Federal Government customers, located in Virginia Beach, VA. This role is 100% onsite. Local candidates are preferred, but we can also pay for relocation.
Being a US Cit is required to work for this company.
This position pays a strong salary package with full benefits (including choice of healthcare plans, dental, vision, life insurance, 3 weeks PTO, 11 Paid Federal Holidays, and a matching 401k).
An option for working on an hourly rate is also available for those not needing a full benefits package.
Title: Automation Lead (AI and Agents adoption)
About the Company
Our client is a leading US supplier to defense and government customers, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with large-scale warehouse and distribution operations. The company is growing rapidly and investing in modernizing its technology, and we are building a dedicated on-site team to support this transformation. This is a multi-year, full-time engagement.
The role
As the right hand person of the Director of Software Development, you will lead the adoption of AI and automation across the company, working through a multi-year pipeline of opportunities for AI, LLM agents and workflow automation, where each project opens the door to the next. You will be the company’s dedicated automation expert and work independently in the initial phase. Phase 1 focuses on discovery and planning, defining priorities and the AI adoption roadmap with leadership. Phase 2 focuses on delivery.
The Responsibilities
· Interview stakeholders and business owners across sales, contracts, procurement, finance, logistics and customer service to map processes and identify automation opportunities.
· Prioritize opportunities and agree on the AI adoption roadmap with leadership.
· Design and build solutions: LLM-based assistants and agents, document processing (solicitations, quotes, contracts, invoices), workflow automation, and integrations with Salesforce, the self-hosted Oracle ERP and other systems.
· Establish guardrails for controlled and export-controlled data, access control, evaluation, monitoring and human review.
· Measure and report the business impact of each automation.
· Define the standards and patterns the program builds on, including for 1–2 future team members.
Required skills and experience
· 7+ years in software engineering or automation, including 2+ years building production LLM applications (retrieval, tool use, agents) on OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI or AWS Bedrock.
· Proven, hands-on experience delivering AI-powered business automation (required).
· Strong Python or TypeScript skills, with API and systems integration experience.
· Experience with a workflow or RPA platform (Power Automate, UiPath, n8n or similar).
· Ability to partner with executives, turn loosely defined needs into scoped projects and communicate results clearly.
· Understanding of data security in regulated environments.
· US Cit residing in the US.
· Ability to work on-site in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Nice to have
· Salesforce platform development.
· Federal contractor experience: CMMC, ITAR or CUI handling.
· Building on Azure Government or AWS GovCloud.
· Integration experience with Oracle ERP and Alteryx.
If qualified and interested, please send an updated resume along with rate/salary requirement and we will follow up quickly to discuss further details and move forward with your interview process.
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