Senior AI Integration Developer

Job description

Responsibilities Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior AI Integration Developer to lead the design and implementation of an AI assistant capability within an existing web application in support of RF spectrum monitoring for the Department of Defense. This is a technically demanding role at the intersection of applied AI, software engineering, and operational tooling. The core focus of this position is the development of a context-aware AI assistant and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and tooling infrastructure that connects it to the application’s data, workflows, and services. Given the sensitive nature of the operational environment, the primary deployment target is locally-hosted models (e.g., Ollama) running in air-gapped or connectivity-constrained environments — with cloud-based LLM APIs as a secondary consideration. The right candidate understands not just how to wire up a model, but how to design tool interfaces and select or tune models that perform reliably under these constraints. It is particularly important for the candidate to take the time to properly understand the application domain and CONOPs in order to develop appropriate MCP tool chains. This individual will...