Software Engineer 3 - (Python, AI/ML, CNO)Clearance: TS/SCI w/ poly
Position ID: 20-25-023-SWE3
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Description:This focused Sr. Software Engineer will be supporting CNO development across many development groups by designing, developing, and integrating tools to assist in development activities.
Having a deep understanding of the customer's mission, dataflow, and tooling is critical to this position.
You will be expected to provide guidance and vision as you work with mission stakeholders and software engineers to specify, develop, integrate, and test new workflows aided by AI/ML technologies.
- Lead a project from inception to delivery in the CNO domain, including problem decomposition, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of applications.
- Interact with mission stakeholders to elicit requirements and devise solutions.
- Collaborate with other software engineers to test workflows, identify issues, and recommend pathways for fixes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and address real-world reverse engineering challenges.
- Overcome inevitable obstacles.
Position Required Skills:- Production-grade software development experience in Python.
- Experience within the CNO developer domain developing tools for operational use.
- Experience with development of AI systems and customizing of AI models.
- Practical experience with platforms for processing Agency data sets.
- Experience with software source control (git) and Atlassian tool suite - Jira, Confluence.
- Experience interacting with stakeholders to elicit requirements.
- Knowledge of Python or similar scripting languages.
Position Desired Skills:- Experience working as a lead for a development team.
- Practical experience in one or more artificial intelligence domains (e.g., intelligent systems, autonomy, planning, LLMs and LLM Training).
- Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
- Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.
- Familiarity with cloud computing technologies (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with web application/UI development.
Salary Range: **$232k-$283k (Annually)
**The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 
Never miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.
