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Laurel, MD (On-Site/Office)
Description
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Visionist has an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Developer. Lead a team transitioning a prototype large language model (LLM) framework into a scalable, production-ready system serving thousands of users. You'll help build a premier, enterprise-level frontier LLM for developers, analysts, and leadership at a critical defense organization. Collaborate with the original prototype team to ensure a smooth transition to production, improving stability and expanding capabilities. You'll work with government stakeholders to gather requirements and lead your team in prioritizing and delivering new features. This role also includes deploying the LLM on AWS, strengthening the supporting infrastructure, and implementing security measures to meet high-level accreditation standards.
For over 14 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people-your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation's cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don't just take our word for it-check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at www.visionistinc.com .
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Your contributions are...
- Collaborate with the prototype team to transition the existing LLM tool suite to a production-ready service
- Lead a team of developers and system administrators in the design, deployment, and maintenance of the enterprise system
- Coordinate with the lead systems engineer to keep development efforts aligned and on schedule
- Design and implement compliance controls to meet accreditation requirements
- Develop new features across the LLM's communication and business logic layers
- Monitor and optimize application performance, with a focus on backend efficiency
- Stay current on trends and advancements in LLM technologies and architectures
Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
- 20 years of experience in software development
- Experience leading small to mid-sized teams building enterprise software for diverse user bases
- Production-grade development experience in enterprise languages such as Java or Python
- Experience maintaining user interfaces that interact with RESTful backends (e.g., ReactJS, Angular)
- Experience with Docker-based container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI/CD)
- Deep knowledge of AWS services and experience deploying medium-scale applications in AWS environments
- Familiarity with configuring monitoring and metrics platforms (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Familiarity with LLM technologies, including usage patterns, best practices, and limitations
- Understanding of AI/LLM design paradigms such as RAG, agentic workflows, and prompt engineering
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional team coordination
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $205,000 - $219,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
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Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist
Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do
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U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Visionist has an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Developer. Lead a team transitioning a prototype large language model (LLM) framework into a scalable, production-ready system serving thousands of users. You'll help build a premier, enterprise-level frontier LLM for developers, analysts, and leadership at a critical defense organization. Collaborate with the original prototype team to ensure a smooth transition to production, improving stability and expanding capabilities. You'll work with government stakeholders to gather requirements and lead your team in prioritizing and delivering new features. This role also includes deploying the LLM on AWS, strengthening the supporting infrastructure, and implementing security measures to meet high-level accreditation standards.
For over 14 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people-your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation's cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don't just take our word for it-check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at www.visionistinc.com .
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Your contributions are...
- Collaborate with the prototype team to transition the existing LLM tool suite to a production-ready service
- Lead a team of developers and system administrators in the design, deployment, and maintenance of the enterprise system
- Coordinate with the lead systems engineer to keep development efforts aligned and on schedule
- Design and implement compliance controls to meet accreditation requirements
- Develop new features across the LLM's communication and business logic layers
- Monitor and optimize application performance, with a focus on backend efficiency
- Stay current on trends and advancements in LLM technologies and architectures
Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
- 20 years of experience in software development
- Experience leading small to mid-sized teams building enterprise software for diverse user bases
- Production-grade development experience in enterprise languages such as Java or Python
- Experience maintaining user interfaces that interact with RESTful backends (e.g., ReactJS, Angular)
- Experience with Docker-based container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI/CD)
- Deep knowledge of AWS services and experience deploying medium-scale applications in AWS environments
- Familiarity with configuring monitoring and metrics platforms (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Familiarity with LLM technologies, including usage patterns, best practices, and limitations
- Understanding of AI/LLM design paradigms such as RAG, agentic workflows, and prompt engineering
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional team coordination
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $205,000 - $219,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
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Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist
Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do
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U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.
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