Senior Software Engineer

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Work Location: Rockville, MD (Remote)

Contract: 12+ months contract

Position Summary:

Client is building a set of AI agents that turn curated pharmaceutical supply chain data into analyst-ready outputs: drug case study decks, account email drafts and interactive data lookups. The tools are working for a small team. We need an engineer to make them reliable, secure and self-service for users across the organization. You'll own the path from the data layer to the browser: the agent backend, the web app, hosting, sign-on, and the monitoring that lets people trust the results.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Designs module boundaries and contracts across several teams' code.
• Sets the front-end architecture and decides whether to migrate frameworks.
• Designs the multi-user hosting architecture: scaling, isolation, high availability, cost.
• Designs evaluation, guardrails and prompt-injection defenses for agentic systems.
• Threat modeling, leading security reviews, auditability design.
• Owns the platform roadmap, mentors others, sets standards.

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7–10+ years, including technical lead or architect work.
• Performance tuning of Spark on large datasets; data contract design.
• Pharmaceutical, life sciences or supply chain domain experience (NDCs, API manufacturers, drug shortages).
• Working in regulated environments: audit trails, validation, change control (e.g. 21 CFR Part 11 awareness).

• Headless browser automation (Playwright) and document generation (HTML-to-PDF, PPTX)
• Ansible, Bitbucket Pipelines or Jenkins; nginx.
• Kedro or similar data pipeline frameworks; MLflow.
• Agent orchestration patterns (tool calling, bounded loops, LLM-as-judge review).