Software Developer/Engineer

Job Title: Software Developer
Duration: 3+ years
Client: Defense Research Lab
Location: Lexington, MA

Candidates must have at least an active secret or higher clearance to be considered for this position.

Description: Develops application software. Writing and implementing efficient code. Research, designs, develops and implements software applications and systems. Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards. Evaluates, designs, and implements interface between hardware and software, operational requirements, cloud offering, system architecture, security, and characteristics of overall system. Researching, designing, implementing, and managing software programs. Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications. Determining operational practicality. Documents testing, client experience and maintenance of system corrections. May partner and collaborate with cyber security teams to ensure compliance with security standards. May develop and conduct unit tests.

Background/Need: The Group seeks a software system engineer to support prototyping of software systems in service of government needs. The engineer will work with Laboratory technical researchers to design, implement, integrate, and test software solutions based on technical needs identified by staff.

Other information relevant to the job requirement?

The candidate will implement algorithms for processing large datasets obtained from a proprietary database platform. This work may include front-and back-end development. The candidate must be experienced in software requirements, design, development, integration, testing, documentation, and maintenance. Work will be executed primarily in Rust and Python in a Linux environment using open source and custom software.

Required Skills:

• Experience developing/deploying (with) agentic and generative AI solutions.
• Experience developing distributed and cloud-based systems and services.
• Experience architecting software systems.
• Strong object- and service-oriented development skills, including microservices architecture.
• Experience with modern DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Git/GitOps, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Experience with at least one NoSQL database technology.
• Experience with modern programming languages such as Rust, Python, and Java.
• Experience creating and managing container environments, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Front end development with modern visualization tools (e.g., Grafana or Kibana)
• Works well in a fast moving, small team environment, both independently and collaboratively.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing scalable software architectures in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of full software lifecycle automation and testing tools.
• Expertise in modern software design patterns and frameworks.
• Expertise in high performance multi-threaded applications.
• Experience with Identity Management/ICAM solution.
• Familiarity with embedded systems architectures.
• Unix shell scripting capability.
• Comfortability in designing and/or working with statistical inference models.

Others:

• Clearance: Candidates must have at least an active secret clearance to be considered for this position. Candidates who do not have an active top-secret clearance must be willing to pursue a top-secret clearance.
• Work Location: The expectation is for this role to be onsite at least 4 days a week if not more, with 1 day a week remote as needed.
• Interview Process: Will be via video conference for initial interview and may advance to in-person panel interview.