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About the Role
Redhorse is seeking a highly skilled Mid-Level Full Stack Software Engineer to contribute to the Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). You will play a vital role in enhancing data-driven decision-making by developing and maintaining software solutions within the Advana platform, directly impacting the development and deployment of critical AI/ML capabilities for flagship applications like GAMECHANGER, Contract Search, and JBook Search. This is a high-impact role offering significant opportunities for professional growth and collaboration with leading experts in AI and data science.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence-based support capabilities, including software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
• Develops the front-end and back-end of software prototypes, components, and tooling to accelerate the prototyping process.
• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
• Maintains the existing code base of in-production applications, performing bug fixes, code and component library updates to meet security and performance needs, and capability enhancements as planned in the sprint schedule.
• Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
• Develops plans, roadmaps, and software design strategies. Analyzes and decomposes activities and requirements into software designs allocated across systems components/sub-components.
• Aids in formulating a strategy for achieving rapid prototyping of AI capabilities, including Generative AI.
• Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to create cohesive and sound software designs forming 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 the latest AI system and software architectures and trends, from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.
• Implements CI/CD pipelines, and optimizes software for scalability, performance, and security.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and UX designers.

Required Experience/Clearance

• Bachelor's degree plus 5-7 years of experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of experience.
• Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at least one more programming language (Java preferred).
• Experience with front-end frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience with back-end runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools.
• DevSecOps experience, including the use of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tooling (Git runners, code scanning tools).
• Experience with containerization and the use of Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Object-Relational Mapping persistence frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy), and with PostgreSQL.
• Well-versed in modern software architectures like microservices, as well as front-end frameworks.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level III (preferred).
• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility.

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