Software Engineer
About The Position
Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for a Software Engineer to support our DoD/DoW customers. Software Engineers supporting these efforts work alongside data scientists and data engineers to develop advanced capabilities, prototype new applications, and deliver cutting edge products for high impact government missions. Success in this role requires strong technical depth, the initiative to operate with minimal direction, and the creativity to develop novel solutions. These positions are part of cross-functional teams that include Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Product Managers, Analysts, and other technical contributors. Software Engineers work to develop and deploy software that utilizes advanced ML/AI capabilities for mission and operational problem areas (e.g., Cyber Operations, Supply Chain Integrity, and other customer driven domains). These products are developed in collaboration with a team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers using modern development practices such as version control, automated testing, containerized deployments, code review, and iterative delivery. This is a hybrid role open to candidates in the Washington, DC area. Outside of contract work, TRSS Data Scientists contribute to internal innovation by participating in research and development (R&D), developing and maintaining shared capabilities, strengthening technical skills, and supporting business development efforts such as proof-of-concept projects and capabilities briefings.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance; current or active clearance strongly preferred.
- At least three years experience with Java in the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot)
- At least three years experience with Python
- At least three years experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern component-based framework (React or similar).
- At least three years experience with SQL for relational data modeling, schema design, migration management, and data extraction or transformation tasks.
- At least three years experience with Docker
- At least three years experience with Git/GitHub
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DoD, intelligence community, or other government research and development programs.
- Data Modeling and Management: designing and maintaining relational data models, writing migrations, and managing structured data across the full data lifecycle including ingestion, transformation, validation, and storage.
- Container orchestration platforms, particularly Kubernetes, including writing and maintaining Helm charts for multi-service deployments across multiple environments.
- Experience with AI development tools and LLM APIs, including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock; experience building applications that integrate LLM-based generation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or vector embedding workflows.
- Experience with data engineering practices including ETL/ELT pipeline design, vector search indexing (Elasticsearch), object storage (MinIO/S3), and schema migration tooling (Liquibase or similar).
- Experience with machine learning concepts and frameworks, particularly embedding models, semantic similarity, and nearest-neighbor retrieval as applied in production software systems.
- Experience supporting national security missions or developing tools for sensitive, mission-critical operational environments where data integrity, access control, and operational context carry significant real-world consequence.
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, testing, and maintaining multi-service backend systems and supporting frontend interfaces that deliver mission-driven analytical or operational capabilities.
- Building proof-of-concept workflows, REST APIs, microservices, or decision-support tools to demonstrate and mature new software capabilities at pace with operational needs.
- Handling sensitive, confidential, or regulated data in accordance with applicable policies and requirements.
- Interfacing directly with customers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Working both independently and as a member of a team.
- Working using modern software development practices, including shared repositories, version control, automated testing, containerization, documentation, and iterative delivery.
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- access to the Headspace app
- retirement savings
- tuition reimbursement
- employee incentive programs
- resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- competitive 401k plan with company match
- competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- paid holidays
- parental leave
- sabbatical leave
- optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
- optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- fitness reimbursement
- access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
- access to 529 Plan
- commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
