Senior Software Engineer / Visualization Developer

GliaCell Technologies•Laurel, MD

1d•$170,000 - $260,000•Remote

About The Position

GliaCell is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on one of our subcontracts. This is a full-time position offering the opportunity to support a U.S. Government customer. The mission is to provide technical expertise that assists in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems to a large government contract. Research areas include visualization, user interface design, machine learning, and other computational techniques and system architectures capable of advancing the state-of-the-art. Develop web-based visualization solutions, implemented in JavaScript, to enable the customer to visualize and explore large amounts of data from a Knowledge Graph in an efficient, optimized, web environment. The activities shall include the development of new visual analysis techniques to enable user exploration, via responsive UX interactions, of complex relationships (to include hierarchical and otherwise). The contractor shall develop and sustain web-based tools through rapid development cycles and customer engagement (e.g., feedback sessions). The focus is to enable the government to identify cutting-edge visualization approaches for data investigation which promotes strong, clear storytelling for end-user decision- making.

Requirements

Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
U.S. Citizenship.
14+ years Software Engineering experience and a BS degree in Computer Science or related.
Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Works well independently as well as on a team.
Strong communication skills.
Data Visualization proficiency – DOM-based (D3, SVG, etc.) and/or rendering-based (Canvas, WebGL, WebGPU, etc.)
JavaScript and/or TypeScript
React and JQuery
JSON

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating with existing DOD tools & API endpoints (e.g., CASPORT, CREATIVEMODE)
Python
DevOps experience – Docker/Docker compose, Podman, Nginx
Unit testing (e.g., Vitest or Cypress)

Responsibilities

Develop web-based visualization solutions, implemented in JavaScript, to enable the customer to visualize and explore large amounts of data from a Knowledge Graph in an efficient, optimized, web environment.
Development of new visual analysis techniques to enable user exploration, via responsive UX interactions, of complex relationships (to include hierarchical and otherwise).
Develop and sustain web-based tools through rapid development cycles and customer engagement (e.g., feedback sessions).