Overview
LMI is seeking a Software Developer, Applications/AI Automation Engineer to build automation, AI-enabled applications, prototypes, integrations, APIs, and production-ready software components for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) modernization initiatives. The role spans no-code, low-code, and full-code delivery and favors approved reusable patterns before custom development.
This position follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation of approximately 25% onsite presence at LMI’s Tysons headquarters or Washington, DC.
This is a builder role for an engineer who can move from rough problem statements to working technical increments quickly without sacrificing maintainability. The engineer should be comfortable deciding when configuration or low-code is sufficient, when custom code is justified, and how to evolve an early prototype into a supportable enterprise solution.
The successful candidate will bring modern software-engineering discipline to automation and AI-enabled work. That includes secure coding, testability, version control, API design, logging, documentation, code review, and careful handling of prompts, model integrations, data flows, and other components that can introduce new failure modes.
The engineer should take ownership of the full technical lifecycle, not just initial build tasks. Strong candidates will be curious about how a solution behaves with real data and users, responsive to defects and feedback, and disciplined about leaving behind code, configuration, documentation, and tests that another engineer can understand.
The ideal candidate is a pragmatic builder who can move quickly from validated workflow needs to testable solutions, troubleshoot across system boundaries, and package reusable code and configuration for future use.
LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.
Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.
Responsibilities
Build workflow automations, lightweight applications, prototypes, integrations, and production-quality components.
Select the simplest approved implementation approach across no-code, low-code, and full-code options.
Develop and troubleshoot APIs, scripts, services, prompts, agents, automation logic, and application components.
Support technical feasibility testing, prototype evaluation, pilot readiness, implementation, and handoff.
Apply secure coding, version control, testing, code review, documentation, and configuration-management practices.
Partner with HCD/UX, data, architecture, security, platform, QA, and business stakeholders to fit real workflows.
Package reusable code, prompts, configurations, integration patterns, and technical guidance.
Resolve issues that cross application, data, integration, automation, or platform boundaries.
Translate validated user and workflow needs into technical designs, implementation tasks, acceptance criteria, and working software across low-code, automation, API, and full-code approaches.
Implement defensive error handling, logging, configuration management, secrets handling, automated tests, and observabilityappropriate tothe maturity and risk of each solution.
Evaluate and integrate AI/LLM capabilities where justified, including prompt orchestration, retrieval, structured outputs, tool/API calls, evaluation logic, and guardrails within approved…