Software Developer IV

Job Summary

General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-I3), an affiliate of General Atomics, maintains and deploys production systems for users across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and commercial industry. We build and develop best-in-class all domain and globally focused situational awareness capabilities, including THRESHER and DRAGONSPELL, that process petabytes of data from numerous streaming data sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features and fuse data from multiple phenomenologies to form a rich live view of objects in the sky, on the sea, and on the ground. These analytics are designed to determine not just where something is, but what it is, where it's been and what it's doing. All of this "data to knowledge" is made available to end users in our own browser-based application for visualization, analysis, and understanding. We always want to do more, and that's where you come in!

GA-I3 is looking for a Software Engineer to join our federal team to develop scalable, high-performant cloud-based computer vision systems focused on the automated detection of objects in satellite imagery. State of the art Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are used in AI/ML pipelines to process large volumes of satellite imagery. Object detections from the platform are used by the community to search for objects, maintain object custody, and in Multi-INT analytics.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Under limited supervision, develop, integrate, and maintain cloud-based image processing pipelines and infrastructure that process satellite imagery at scale in a cloud environment
• Develop test scripts and frameworks to verify and validate functionality
• Maintain existing capabilities deployed to customer facilities and cloud environments including debugging and updating to keep pace with the evolving environment and technology
• Understand customer, user, and operational requirements and implement new functionality into software products
• Document and communicate highly technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences in a clear and effective manner
• Communicate with management, customers, developers, and users
• Work directly with internal and external developers to transition applications into the computer vision platform
• Maintain the strict confidentiality of sensitive information
• Observe all laws, regulations and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company
• Work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices
• Willing to provide leadership and mentoring for more junior computer vision engineers
• Willing to lead a team of computer vision engineers, either on a temporary or permanent basis

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

Job Qualifications

• Ability to transfer and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and a CI poly is required.
• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in computer science, information systems or related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; six or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, four or more years of experience with a masters degree, or two or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Strong experience with cloud-based technologies, including AWS or Azure
• Experience with software development lifecycle and use of associated tools
• Linux
• Highly proficient programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, Scala, Go, Rust
• An understanding of formal software engineering principles including design, documentation, ticketing systems, version control and Agile methodologies
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving requirement
• Exceptional analytical skills and problem-solving skills
• High level of self-initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to work effectively in small team settings to solve complex problems
• Strong organization, communication, decision making, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Customer focused, formulates plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving advanced software development problems
• CompTIA Security+ or willingness to get certified

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Curious and excited to learn new technologies
• Excited about understanding our customer's needs and mission
• Interested in maintaining and adapting existing codebases
• Satellite image processing and computer vision applications
• Image processing libraries such as GDAL, OpenCV
• Experienced with full lifecycle development
• Able to build and deploy working prototypes
• GEOINT AI/ML pipelines
• Geospatial data processing
• Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm
• Data brokers such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Knative
• CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Jenkins)
• RESTful APIs
• Databases technologies (PostgreSQL, Redis, or other DBs)