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ICF

Applied AI Engineer – Global Health

ICF

. Design and build LLM pipelines and agents for survey workflows .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $98,614 - $167,644 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudJavaScriptPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and build LLM pipelines and agents for survey workflows
  • Build AI-assisted data-to-report pipelines
  • Enable natural-language analysis of survey data
  • Develop multilingual questionnaire translation tools
  • Build field-support tools for interviewers and supervisors
  • Build evaluation harnesses with acceptance criteria, expert-produced ground truth, test sets, automated and human grading, regression testing, and ship/no-ship decisions
  • Route work across models based on reasoning complexity, volume, cost, latency, and data-residency requirements
  • Manage inference costs through token-usage tracking, context limits, prompt caching, and batch processing
  • Connect models to data services and full-stack applications
  • Use agentic coding tools to produce, review, test, and own production software
  • Monitor production systems, conduct error analysis, and report positive and negative results
  • Document methods and results for public release
  • Transfer tools to partner-country institutions for independent operation
  • Collaborate with the Technical Lead, survey experts, funders, and partner-government staff

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent years of experience
  • Minimum 4 years of professional software development experience, including building LLM-powered systems relied on by real users in production
  • U.S. citizenship required by federal government contract
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship
  • Proficiency in Python or another modern programming language, such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Go
  • Hands-on experience with frontier-model APIs, including tool use and retrieval-augmented generation
  • Experience designing LLM evaluations, including test-set construction, automated and human grading, regression testing, and ship/no-ship decisions
  • Working knowledge of LLM cost, latency, and model-selection trade-offs
  • Experience building and deploying on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another major cloud platform
  • Experience using agentic coding tools to specify, review, test, and own production code
  • Experience with agent frameworks and AI evaluation tooling
  • Preferred: experience with subject-matter-expert ground truth, structured or tabular data, multilingual or low-resource-language NLP, open-weight models, sensitive or regulated data, model governance, global health, public work, or technical writing
  • Ability to explain AI trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to collaborate across disciplines, cultures, time zones, and organizational levels
  • Ability to communicate uncertainty, limitations, and negative results candidly
  • Self-motivated and able to add value with limited direct supervision

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Occasional travel
  • Reasonable accommodations for disability, religious purposes, disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and sincerely held religious beliefs
  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Benefit offerings referenced under the Transparency in Coverage Act