Senior Software Engineer

AeroVironment•Jessup, MD

4d•$150,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AV PRIME contract is seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to perform as part of a team supporting the development of the Tactical Edge Platform. The selected candidate will be responsible for supporting, integrating, scaling, documenting, and securing all aspects of the virtual compute and container platforms that make up the Tactical Edge Platform. This role involves working with developers to ensure compliance with optimal integration, ensuring DevOps policies are integrated throughout the stack, and conducting assessments to ensure the platforms meet required performance specifications. The engineer will also be responsible for containerizing key applications identified by the mission lead and will require an understanding of standard AI / ML data formats for models, weights, and data interchange. Work is performed in the contractor facility in Annapolis Junction, with partial telework available and access to both low and high side systems.

Requirements

Twenty (20) years of experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Experience developing/integrating capabilities while leveraging software containerization technologies (K8s, Rancher, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Experience developing and maintaining micro-services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Experience working with varying and contrasting communications and data formats
Deep understanding of AI/ML capabilities within client environment.
Ability to work independently as well as collaborate effectively within a team environment.
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Understanding of standard AI / ML data formats for models, weights, and data interchange.

Nice To Haves

Agile Development Experience
Experience with programmatic data serving/retrieval APIs/mechanisms
Familiarity with DevOps concepts
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of data science workflows, ETL, and data lakes.

Responsibilities

Supports, integrates, scales, documents, and secures all aspects of the virtual compute and container platforms that make up the Tactical Edge Platform
Works with developers to ensure compliance with optimal integration
Ensures DevOps policies are integrated throughout the stack
Conducts assessments to ensure the platforms meet required performance specifications
Containerizes key applications identified by mission lead
Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
Software development on low and high side to build innovative solutions in both environments.
Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
Design and code new software or modify existing software to develop rapid, light-weight experiments to evaluate and explore new solutions to help steer customer capabilities.
Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
Write or review software and system documentation
Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas
Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints
Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering