ARServices seeks a Full/Stack Software Engineer to contribute to the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) AI Talent 2.0 program. CDAO is responsible for the establishment of the strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems. This position will play a key role in CDAO's goal of maximizing continuous iteration / continuous development, application of responsible AI concepts, and enterprise scalability. Systems work will further comply with DoD policy as it pertains to risk-managed access to data, active collaboration in the industry/academic/government data and AI communities, and efficient acquisitions and procurement strategies.
Requirements
Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence based products including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process.
Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities.
Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable AI solutions.
Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors.
Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.
Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies. Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components.
Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.
Qualifications:
Active DoD Secret Clearance required (TS and above desired)
Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at preferably one more programming language (Java is a plus)
Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue
Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools
Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services as well as front-end frameworks
DevSecOps experience a big plus
Strong communications skills; Engineer will be required to proactively engage fellow CDAO members both inside and outside of the immediate team.
Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines