Senior Systems Engineer - Agentic AI Platforms - Peraton - Annapolis Junction, MD

Responsibilities
Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to define, integrate, and mature the technical foundations of an Agentic AI platform that enables rapid development of secure, AI-powered applications through natural language interfaces, agent builders, and mission-level workflow orchestration.

This role will help bridge product vision, user needs, platform architecture, software implementation, and operational deployment. The ideal candidate will bring strong systems engineering experience with the ability to define requirements, decompose complex problems, align multi-disciplinary teams, and ensure that Agentic AI capabilities are implemented as part of a coherent, scalable, and secure system.

This position is especially well suited for someone who can operate across architecture, integration, technical planning, mission workflows, and end-to-end system behavior in emerging AI-enabled environments.

Key responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Design, decompose, and manage system requirements for an Agentic AI platform spanning user interaction, orchestration, platform services, AI enablement, security, and mission integration
Support end-to-end system design across front-end backend, agent orchestration, data flows, access control, and supporting platform services
Translate product objectives and mission use cases into actionable technical requirements, interfaces, workflows, and engineering priorities
Develop system-level architecture views, interface definitions, integration concepts, and functional decomposition for platform capabilities
Partner closely with software engineers, AI/ML researchers, product stakeholders, and platform engineers to ensure technical alignment across system components
Analyze and define workflows involving human users, agents, models, tools, external data/services, and system guardrails
Help establish technical approaches for agent orchestration, context handling, tool integrat