Full-Stack Engineer – AI/ML Applications
Salary Range
$150,000 - $160,000
Thorben Consulting, LLC is seeking a talented Full-Stack Engineer – AI/ML Applications 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—from intuitive React/Next.js interfaces to the backend API/BFF services that bring those experiences to life.
The ideal candidate will take ownership of end-to-end product capabilities, creating seamless vertical slices that connect front-end components, real-time Server-Sent Events (SSE) pipelines, and backend services. You will design and enhance critical platform features, including persistent chat experiences, intelligent notification frameworks, tool-call interactions, artifact visualization, document classification workflows, and advanced trace exploration.
The successful candidate will bring strong full-stack expertise, a passion for exceptional user experiences, and the ability to transform complex AI capabilities into intuitive, reliable, and production-ready applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Build highly impactful, AI-powered solutions by owning the complete user experience from intuitive React/Next.js interfaces to backend API/BFF services
- Take ownership of end-to-end product capabilities, creating seamless vertical slices that connect front-end components, real-time Server-Sent Events (SSE) pipelines, and backend services
- Design and enhance critical platform features including persistent chat experiences, intelligent notification frameworks, tool-call interactions, artifact visualization, document classification workflows, and advanced trace exploration
- Lead the development of intuitive user experiences for document ingestion, classification review, field extraction validation, and user acceptance testing dashboards
- Enable users to efficiently interact with and validate AI-driven document processing workflows
- Integrate with customer identity providers, observability and monitoring platforms, and CI/CD deployment pipelines
- 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 including prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and evaluation logic for document section classification and extracted field validation
Qualifications
Required
- Candidate must be a US Citizen
- Active Top Secret security clearance (must already possess at time of hire)
- 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
- Active DoD TOP SECRET clearance or eligibility to obtain one
- Current, active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph
- Current, active Security+ or equivalent certificate for privileged user access
Preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- 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 including prompt engineering workflows, model evaluation dashboards, and 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 including Amazon Bedrock, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, and CDK
- Associate-level or higher AWS certification
Ready to Apply?
Join our team and help us deliver innovative cloud solutions. We look forward to hearing from you!
Team Thorben
Thorben Consulting, LLC is a 100% woman-owned small business that delivers enterprise solutions for growing businesses and provides trusted technology professionals for SAP and other enterprise system integration planning, design, implementation, and maintenance projects. Thorben has supported commercial and US Government clients for more than 15 years and strives to help our customers achieve success through innovative solutions implemented in a responsible manner.
Seize the opportunity to become a member of our trailblazing team, where you'll work on groundbreaking cloud solutions and be part of a culture that fosters innovation. Collaborate with industry experts to stay at the forefront of cloud technology, while shaping the next generation of secure, scalable, and efficient cloud infrastructure solutions.
Great Benefits
- Profit sharing bonus program
- Employer paid health insurance
- 401K retirement plan with employer match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Professional development stipend
Hiring Process
- Interviews will be conducted remotely via video conference
- Salary and benefits are negotiable pending experience