Software Engineer (Test and Evaluation)

Cognitive Performance Group (CPG) is hiring a Software Engineer to lead development and support of data collection applications used in research and field events. The role spans mobile, web, and database systems, including deployment, on-site troubleshooting, data reporting, and collaboration with researchers and military subject-matter experts.

Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture and technical decisions for CPG’s data collection applications across mobile, web, and database layers
• Build and maintain mobile applications for structured data collection, including offline capture and sync in low-connectivity field settings
• Develop web applications and APIs that manage, review, and report on collected data
• Design and maintain SQL databases and write efficient, reliable queries
• Use AI coding tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation, while scrutinizing and challenging their output with care
• Deploy apps, train users, and troubleshoot on site at field events
• Set development standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and security, including defense-sector compliance requirements
• Containerize and deploy applications and maintain the CI/CD pipeline that builds, versions, and releases them into a government cloud environment
• Build collection and reporting tools against a governing data collection and analysis plan, maintaining traceability from captured measure to research objective, including adjudication provenance and data quality indicators
• Develop data visualizations and reporting interfaces that make collected data legible to researchers, military leadership, and sponsors

Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• Proven record of building and shipping mobile applications (Kotlin or Java) used in production
• Experience with front-end and back-end web development (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript and a server-side framework)
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) as part of a regular workflow
• Experience owning the architecture of an application from design through deployment and support
• Experience containerizing applications (e.g., Docker) and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing relational databases and writing SQL
• Experience building applications that collect, store, and validate user-entered data
• Experience using Python to build data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, delivery, and automation
• Familiarity with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171
• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams made up of researchers, engineers, technologists, subject-matter experts, end users, and other stakeholders on product development
• Ability to work effectively as a team in a field environment as well as independently in a remote/virtual environment
• Comfort working with ambiguity and novel concepts in innovative and rapidly changing environments
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• U.S. citizenship required
• Active security clearance required
• Experience building offline-first mobile applications with data synchronization
• Experience developing data collection, survey, or assessment tools, research instrumentation, or test and evaluation data systems
• Experience integrating AI or large language model APIs into applications
• AWS experience, particularly GovCloud or another regulated or air-gapped cloud environment
• Experience with data visualization libraries such as D3.js, or comparable charting and dashboard work
• Experience developing for Microsoft Power Platform (e.g., PowerBI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate)
• Experience shipping fixes and enhancements in stride during a live event, under time pressure and in degraded network conditions
• Experience supporting military training exercises or field events, including exercise coordination and execution
• Experience working with the Department of Defense or in military environments