Software Engineer (SWE), Level 3

Bitwise • Columbia, MD

1d • $282,000 - $332,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This is a rare opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI-driven systems — building and advancing an agentic platform designed to power intelligent, autonomous workflows in a high-impact national security environment. You won't be maintaining legacy tooling or waiting for someone else to define the vision. You'll be shaping how agents operate, learn, and deliver real-world impact in complex, operationally demanding environments. In this role, you'll work hands-on with agentic primitives — skills, prompts, and subagents — to create adaptive, context-aware capabilities. You'll integrate diverse data sources and external APIs using MCP tools, collaborate directly with cyber analysts to translate operational challenges into technical solutions, and keep a production-grade agentic platform running reliably at scale. If you're energized by the intersection of AI engineering and mission-critical software, this one's for you. You will be based in Columbia, MD.

Requirements

• An active TS//SCI clearance with polygraph is required for this role
• 12 years of software development experience , with strong Python proficiency; a B.S. in a technical discipline is required, or 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications that serve hundreds to thousands of users
• Solid understanding of AI development concepts, including prompt engineering, context management, structured outputs, and tool/function calling
• Experience developing resilient, scalable stream processing applications using modern messaging and event-streaming platforms
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and automation

Nice To Haves

• Experience with agentic workflows and multi-agent orchestration
• Background in cybersecurity or familiarity with security operations workflows
• Experience managing deployments in AWS Cloud with Kubernetes GitLab CI/CD automation
• Experience with retrieval systems, including RAG, vector databases, and semantic search
• Ability to analyze cybersecurity-related data sets such as network traffic and OS events
• Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems
• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic integrations with Python that leverage multiple AI models, APIs, and data sources in production
• Build tools and agentic workflows within modern frameworks such as PydanticAI, Langgraph, and DeepAgents
• Design and implement real-time analytics pipelines in Python using Apache Kafka for stream processing and Elasticsearch for indexing and querying
• Work directly with key stakeholders and cyber analysts to understand operational workflows and identify high-impact automation opportunities
• Maintain and troubleshoot a production-grade agentic platform

Benefits

• Top salaries because we're top performers
• Pick your PTO — Everyone values time and money differently, so we give you the flexibility to choose between 3 and 5 weeks of PTO with a corresponding adjustment to your pay. Your choice, your balance.
• All 11 federal holidays, paid!
• Up to 2 snow days, paid!
• We'll quadruple (4x!) the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k), giving you up to a 24% company match. Contributing less than 6%? Unclaimed matches come right back to you as extra income, giving you a guaranteed 24% that goes to your retirement, to your paycheck, or both. C'mon now!
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurances. That's a lot. Already covered on health insurance? No problem — we'll trade you this benefit for a boost to your salary instead.
• $5,250 annual education assistance for training, certifications, tuition, and even student loan repayments.
• Spot bonuses for obtained certifications, customer recognition, and just about anything else that makes us go "Hot damn!". We hope to say that many times about you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees