Appian
Lead Applied AI Engineer
$150K–$300K
McLean, Virginia +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- McLean, Virginia
Appian Corporation - US - Experience
- 7+ years of relevant software development experience with a BS, or 5+ years paired with a Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical/analytical discipline; the experience alternative specifies a Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Leads hands-on development of production AI systems that understand enterprise applications, including agents, orchestration, application intelligence, and evaluation.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, and optimize production AI systems, agents, and orchestration with safe, permission-aware boundaries.
- Extract specifications from existing applications and build semantic models, retrieval, and evaluation pipelines.
- Improve reliability, latency, and scale; use AI coding tools, mentor junior engineers, and share technical documentation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical/analytical discipline.
- Strong distributed-systems background, including retries, idempotency, partial failure, long-running tasks, and recovery.
- Strong software engineering, data-pipeline, and observability skills, with ability to own a production service end to end.
- Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants and ability to evaluate, coach others on, and selectively apply AI-generated code in production.
Nice to have
- Expertise in code search, repository intelligence, or developer tools.
- Experience with legacy codebase and workflow modernization; enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow are also valued.
Pay
$150,000 — $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
AI coding assistants, Salesforce, ServiceNow
AI focus
Build AI agents and orchestration, extract specifications from existing systems, model application intelligence and retrieval, and develop rigorous LLM evaluation; use AI coding tools in production engineering.
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