Software/AI Engineer II

Quality Support, Inc., openings for Software/AI Engineers with 5+ years of related experience with a background of submarine electronic subsystem requirements, development and testing. Preferred Virginia Class Submarine Program and/or Columbia Class Submarine Program background/experience but not required. Secret and Top-Secret clearances required. Must be a US Citizen.

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD.

Location

Virginia

Level/Salary Range

TBD

HR Contact

Subrina Miles

Job Category

Non-Exempt

Security Clearance Required

Secret (may require Top Secret)

Position Type

Full-time

Duties/Requirements/Qualifications

Software/AI Engineer Job Responsibilities

Transform AI technology into opportunity as a Software/AI Engineer II at QSI. Help drive the next-must have dynamic mission-critical government projects while maturing your engineering skills and career. Working with:

• Experience using the Linux CLI and Linux tools
• Experience developing Bash scripts to automate manual processes
• Recent software development experience using Python
• Understanding of basic parallel programming concepts
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, PodMan, containerd
• Familiar with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools
• Focus on mastering basic syntax, data structures (lists, dictionaries), and object-oriented programming.
• Basic foundational grasp of probability, linear algebra, and basic statistics is necessary to understand how AI algorithms evaluate and process data
• Integrating pre-trained models via developer APIs, such as OpenAI, Google's Gemini, or Anthropic.
• data processing libraries like NumPy and Pandas to manipulate datasets before feeding them to an AI.
• Understand how to write clear, context-rich instructions for AI systems so you can rapidly prototype features without writing complex code.
• Familiar with beginner-friendly machine learning frameworks, such as Scikit-Learn, which provide simple tools for pattern recognition and basic data analysis

Software/AI Engineer Qualifications/Skills

• Experience using the Linux CLI and Tool Suite
• Experience developing Bash/Python scripts
• Experience developing with Python in a Linux environment
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Familiar with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
• Experience creating Helm Charts to deploy containerized services on Kubernetes
• Experience with SQL technologies such as MySQL
• Experience with designing and implementing REST interfaces
• Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI
• Experience with Git Source Control System
• Familiar with Observability and Analytics platform solutions such as Splunk
• Familiar with automation frameworks including Ansible for orchestrating deployment
• Familiar with Agile, Scrum, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies
• Communication skills
• Teamwork
• Analyzing information
• Software/AI design
• Software/AI documentation
• Software/AI testing
• General/AI programming skills
• Software/AI development fundamentals
• Software/AI development process
• Software/AI requirements
• Software architecture
• The desire to be challenged and think out of the box

Education / Experience Required

• B.A or B.S. in electrical engineering computer science, information technology, or related discipline
• Five plus years of job-related experience
• Five plus years of experience as a Software/AI Engineer II
• Five plus years of experience with AI
• Experience with computer/AI programming
• Experience with the Django Web framework
• Experience with the Celery Task Scheduler
• Experience with NGINX
• Experience with the Atlassian Suite of Tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience with AI Development Tools such as Claude Code