Software Engineer 3 - (Python, Kubernetes, RAG)

Akina, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer 3 to design, develop, deploy, and support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions in a high-performance computing Linux environment. The role focuses on building and sustaining containerized applications and Kubernetes services, along with software testing, integration, and quality control.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, tests, deploys, documents, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements
• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results
• Resolves software problem reports
• Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Open Source Software (OSS) and/or Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) software in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
• Design and development of relational and non-relational database applications
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Develop and execute test procedures for software components
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas
• Modify existing software to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints. Perform quality control on team products
• Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces
• Coordinate software installation on a system and monitor performance to ensure operational specifications are met
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance