Defense Unicorns

Jobs at Defense Unicorns

Software Engineer - Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Remote

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30+d ago

Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Software Engineer to own the assessment, hardening, testing, and modernization of a Government-provided software-defined networking (SDN) baseline capability. You will join the Defense Unicorns Navy Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team and be responsible for understanding an unfamiliar codebase, improving its security and maintainability, and delivering a reliable software baseline that can be sustained as mission requirements evolve. This is

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Senior Platform Engineer

Remote

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30+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a team developing AI applications that help users understand and act on complex Naval engineering records. Using a Forward Deployed Engineering model, our team works closely with mission users to understand how they work, identify friction in their daily tasks, and deliver functional improvements based on rapid feedback. You will serve as

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Senior Platform Engineer (FedD239)

Springfield, Virginia

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30+d ago

Senior Platform Engineer AI Engineering | Forward Deployed Engineering Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior AI Agentic Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem. This role will focus on designing, integrating, and operationalizing AI agents and agentic workflows within a secure enterprise environment. The engineer will work across large language models, agent frameworks, enterprise data, APIs, de

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Senior Data Engineer (FedD238)

Springfield, Virginia

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30+d ago

Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior Data Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem. This role will focus on making enterprise data usable, discoverable, governed, and accessible to AI models, agents, and mission applications. The engineer will work across data ingestion, transformation, storage, metadata, APIs, search, vector and graph technologies, and the interfaces between the data layer and A

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Platform Engineer

San Antonio, Texas

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30+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. THIS POSITION IS ONSITE LOCATED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO APPLY. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the deployment and maintenance of UDS within a secure, bare-metal environment. You will serve as a bridge between application teams and the platform, advocating best practices and helping ensure that the platform is reliable

Full-time

USD 123,250.00 - 166,750.00 per year

Platform Engineer

Remote

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60+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description We are seeking a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join our team. Possessing strong proficiency with Kubernetes, the ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our platform, demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to guide junior engineers. As a Platform Engineer within our organi

Full-time

Senior Platform Engineer (FedD202)

Remote

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60+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Role Description We are seeking a talented Sr. Platform Engineer to join the Navy Delivery team. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, application development, DevOps, and application security. The ideal candidate will help application development teams successfully integrate, package, secure, deploy, and operate their software on the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) and Kubernetes-based environments. The successful candidat

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous and Unmanned Systems (FedD178)

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Delivery Team, focused on integrating and delivering Fleet Management and Edge Management capabilities aboard unmanned systems operating in distributed and disconnected environments. This role is centered on developing complex, data-driven interfaces that allow users to understand, manage

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Senior Software Engineer - UDS Foundations Team (RD182B)

Remote

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90+d ago

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Software Engineer to work on our core products. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and end users to ensure we're building the right solutions-and building them well. The team enables Platform Engineers to securely build, deploy, and operate mission-critical applications in regulated and disconnected environments by providing the core platform and tooling that power UDS. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection o

Full-time

USD 123,250.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Platform Engineer - FedD180/FedD181

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE AN ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE TO APPLY. Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our platform team - a combined DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for the development, maintenance, and reliability of a cloud-based platform environment. The ideal candidate is a strong problem-solver with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, and is motivated by building and

Full-time

USD 123,250.00 - 166,750.00 per year

Software Engineer (FedD105)

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Mid to Senior Software Engineer to help drive our transformation from legacy, on-premises software to a modern, cloud-native platform. In this role you will play a key part in designing and building our next-generation scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from diverse sources. You'll be joining Defense Unicorns' US Navy team and be resp

Full-time

USD 123,250.00 - 166,750.00 per year

Senior Platform Engineer (FedD144)

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE AN ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE TO APPLY. Staff Platform Engineer Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and owning the runtime production environment that bridges applications (custom development, COTS, and OSS) to the underlying platform. You will drive platform architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and serve as the technical

Full-time

Senior Engineering Manager (RD165)

Remote

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90+d ago

Role Description: We are seeking an experienced Product Engineering Manager. You will play a critical role in managing and developing airgap-native software and ensuring it integrates seamlessly with UDS to Accelerate the ATO. You will oversee the development of innovative solutions that meet customer needs and drive the success of our products in National Defense. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and will need a deep understanding of modern software systems. You w

Full-time

USD 178,500.00 - 241,500.00 per year

Senior Software Engineer - UDS Registry Team (RD119)

Remote

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90+d ago

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our UDS Registry team. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and end users to ensure we're building the right solutions-and building them well. The team builds and operates UDS Registry to reliably manage and deploy UDS packages to any mission environment, serving the ISSM persona. In addition, we own the development and maintenance of Pepr and Lula, ensuring our tools continue to meet real-world mission needs. The

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

Platform Engineer (FedD145)

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Role Description We are seeking a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join our team. Possessing strong proficiency with Kubernetes, the ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our platform, demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to guide junior engineers. As a Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated

Full-time

USD 123,250.00 - 166,750.00 per year

Data Engineer (FedD024)

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Responsibilities: Designing data workflows, pipelines, and pathways to support ETL/ELT, while ensuring data-quality and exchange of sensitive information across AWS cloud and on-prem environments. Implementing systems engineering principles to ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of data layer systems, including backup and recovery strategiesArchitecting, deploying, and operating da

Full-time

USD 148,750.00 - 201,250.00 per year

FDE Data Engineer- Space (FedD141/FedD147)

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description This is a forward-deployed engineering role. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with mission heroes: the users, operators, and program engineers who run real workloads in real DoD environments. You'll help take UDS Data Capability from "deployable" to "running in production under classification." You will deploy, integrate, and operate our data stack in the mission hero's environment al

Full-time

USD 123,250.00 - 166,750.00 per year

SkillBridge Intern - Platform Engineer

Remote

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90+d ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Please note that eligible Service members must be within 180 days of separating from Service. Based on the evolving needs of our fast paced startup, we recruit for SkillBridge on a rolling basis. Opportunities will be posted as they become available. If no SkillBridge Intern roles are currently posted that are aligned with your experience, no internships are presently available. Please check back peri

Full-time