Full Stack Software Engineer (Hybrid)

About the position

Supports the Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer's (CDAO) Mission Analytics / Core Analytics Products, Search Products Portfolio, and Unstructured Data Search Enhanced by AI/ML (UD/SEAM).

Responsibilities

• Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence based support capabilities including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
• Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process.
• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
• Maintains the existing code base of in-production applications, performing bug fixes, updates of code and component libraries to meet security and performance needs as required, and capability enhancements as planned in the sprint schedule.
• Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
• Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies. Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components.
• Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities, including Generative AI.
• Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable AI solutions.
• Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors.
• Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.
• Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree plus 5-10 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 3-5 years of experience.
• Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at least one more programming language (Java is preferred).
• Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, tools, and providing leadership to other developers operating within an Agile framework.
• DevSecOps experience including the use of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tooling (Git runners, code scanning tools).
• Experience with containerization and use of Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Object Relational Modeling persistence frameworks (e.g. SQLAlchemy), and with PostgreSQL.
• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services as well as front-end frameworks.
• Strong communications skills: you will be required to proactively engage fellow CDAO members both inside and outside of your team.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• Experience with multi-intelligence and multi-domain systems and understanding of current object and activity-based models in the community.

Nice-to-haves

• An active TS/SCI clearance.
• DoDD 8140 IAT Level III is preferred.
• Experience with the DoDs CDAO, Advana, or other CDAO products.
• Agile methodology.
• AI-enhanced search.
• AI/ML for information retrieval and insight extraction.