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Forward Deployment Agentic Engineer

Guidehouse


Job Location:

San Antonio, TX - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 70000 - 116000
Posted: 6 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Family:

Business Systems Analysis


Travel Required:

Up to 10%


Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

Solution Delivery

  • Build and support agentic AI solutions using Claude API integrations and modern application development practices.
  • Translate business and workflow needs into practical technical designs and working prototypes including Custom Skills.
  • Develop reliable agent workflows that use tools structured outputs retrieval and human review where appropriate.
  • Contribute to the design of solution patterns that balance usability performance maintainability and safety.

Engineering and Integration

  • Build and maintain integrations with internal and external systems through APIs services and data pipelines.
  • Support read-oriented and low-risk workflow integrations with common business systems and internal applications.
  • Work with relational databases and related data storage patterns to support application state retrieval and auditability.

What You Will Need:

  • Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS PUBLIC TRUST; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred
  • Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Data Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
  • Four (4) or more years of experience in software engineering data engineering analytics engineering or a related technical role
  • TWO (2) years of recent hands-on experience building GenAI LLM or agentic solutions
  • Experience with Claude API Claude for Enterprise Claude Code tool use or similar LLM platforms
  • Experience building and integrating applications through APIs services or workflow automation


What Would Be Nice To Have:

  • Anthropic Academy coursework or certificates in areas such as AI Fluency API development Model Context Protocol Claude Code or related Claude platform topics
  • Experience building reliable maintainable and well-documented code
  • Anthropic partner training or certification experience or equivalent Claude-focused credentialing
  • Working knowledge of relational databases and basic data modeling concepts
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud
  • Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) embeddings or vector search
  • Familiarity with agentic workflow patterns orchestration and human-in-the-loop designs
  • Exposure to evaluation practices for AI systems including testing validation and quality review
  • Familiarity with logging monitoring and observability for application services
  • Experience supporting internal platforms client implementations or enterprise software delivery
  • Strong interest in building practical AI solutions that are useful trusted and easy to maintain

The annual salary range for this position is $70000.00-$116000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill sets experience and training security clearances licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs.


What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

  • Medical Rx Dental & Vision Insurance

  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

  • Parental Leave

  • 401(k) Retirement Plan

  • Group Term Life and Travel Assistance

  • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

  • Health Savings Account Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits

  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

  • Tuition Reimbursement Personal Development Certifications & Learning Opportunities

  • Employee Referral Program

  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

  • annual membership

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care Hospital Indemnity Accident Insurance Legal Assistance and ID theft protection etc.)

  • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity EmployerProtected Veterans Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law ordinance or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities or to apply for a position and you require an accommodation please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1- or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @ or . Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.

If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse please report the matter to Guidehouses Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received please contact . Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicants dealings with unauthorized third parties.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.


Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority


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Guidehouse is the only scaled advisory consultancy in the world to fully integrate commercial and public or government businesses within each of our industry segments because complex problems require both perspectives to address and outwit.

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