Work can be performed in the DC-area offices of the Chief Digital and AI Office in Falls Church, the Pentagon, Alexandria, and Arlington. *This is for upcoming work awaiting contract award*

Job Duties:

• Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence based support capabilities including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
• Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process.
• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
• Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities, including Generative AI.
• Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form 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 latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
• Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
• Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies. Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.

Required Skills:

• US Citizens Only
• Clearance required: Secret
• Bachelors Degree plus 7-10 years experience or a Masters Degree plus 5 years of experience.
• Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at preferably one more programming language (Java is a plus).
• Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue. Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools.
• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services as well as front-end frameworks.
• DevSecOps experience a big plus.
• Strong communications skills; you will be required to proactively engage fellow CDAO members both inside and outside of your team.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• DODD 8140 IAT Level III is required for this position.