SOFTWARE ENGINEER III (372) - MARYLAND - URGENT

Job Number: 372

Job Category: GovTech

Job Title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER III (372) - MARYLAND - URGENT

Job Type: Full-time

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI - Full Scope Polygraph

Work Arrangement: On-site

Job Location: Fort Meade MD

Salary: 266K

Background

• Respond to software shortcomings reported by users of existing applications. Watch people use your tool, notice what could be better, and fix it without them asking
• Gather requirements and rapidly develop new prototype tools/solutions that help customers do their jobs more efficiently
• Start with vague requirements, identify and iterate with SMEs to build something special
• Understand the CNMF mission, collaborate with team members, gather user requirements, and automate workflows
• Identify opportunities to leverage existing DAT and AIMASSIST capabilities for our new customer, successfully communicate with and integrate with those teams to apply them to this new mission. Implement features effectively across multiple code bases
• Establish customer rapport, communication cadence, means of prioritization, and effectively capture and make visible your impact on the mission
• Hone an effective, easy-to-use LLM and RAG experience that will be used by your immediate CNMF customer and many, many others

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required
• 12 years' experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required
• 4 years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of modern middleware frameworks (comfort using something along the lines of Express, Flask, Spring, FastAPI, etc.)
• Comfort with basic computer administration including software installation, system configuration, and networking. Comfort with git and automated build pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)

Preferred

• Passion for observability (Elastic, APM, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience integrating software with a Large Language Model (LLM)
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Production-grade software development experience with Python
• Service containerization and deployment with Docker and Kubernetes or Swarm
• Experience building prototypes and understanding the value of frequent iterations and user feedback
• Previous experience working with CNO, USCC, CNMF, or some form of cybersecurity-related past
• Experience with any of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Redis, Kafka, Nginx, AWS, HAProxy
• Experience integrating open-source models and technologies
• Excellent Jira hygiene