What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior AI/Software Developer position at Metrea?
Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Capability Unit
Metrea Algorithmics (MAX) provides unique engineering services, cloud-based cyber operations infrastructure, advanced tactics, techniques and procedures training, and a full suite of wireless communications survey and reconnaissance sensors that enable real-time multi-domain awareness while enhancing command and control.
Position Summary
We seek an innovative and experienced Senior AI/Software Developer to undertake broad ML delivery against a wide range of uses cases across Metrea, specifically within our internal Decision Science Laboratory and automated Solution Engine. A deep understanding of multiple approaches is not expected, but applicants should be comfortable with deploying operational ML techniques across at least one of object detection, LLM/NLP, causal networks, reinforcement learning or track fusion. The ideal candidate will have a master's degree in computer science or in a quantitative field or a bachelor's degree plus suitable experience and a passion for applying advanced data science techniques to solve complex challenges in the Defense sector.
Role And Responsibilities
Metrea’s single core value “rooted in humility” is supported by four key attributes; entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning & over-deliver which combined; form our Teammate Firmware, our culture. These attributes are explored during the hiring process, when we grow our teams and to continually support the growth of our culture. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, and how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for
Benefits
Health and welfare
Retirement plan eligibility
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
Employee must be a US citizen.
Must successfully pass CI Polygraph.
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance at the Top
Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea Algorithmics (MAX) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.
Travel
None
Work Location
Annapolis Junction, MD
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting.
Physical Demands
This is a largely sedentary role; however, some physical abilities will be required
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this role successfully, an individual must be able to perform the responsibilities outlined in this job description to a satisfactory standard. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with additional needs to perform the essential functions.
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Capability Unit
Metrea Algorithmics (MAX) provides unique engineering services, cloud-based cyber operations infrastructure, advanced tactics, techniques and procedures training, and a full suite of wireless communications survey and reconnaissance sensors that enable real-time multi-domain awareness while enhancing command and control.
Position Summary
We seek an innovative and experienced Senior AI/Software Developer to undertake broad ML delivery against a wide range of uses cases across Metrea, specifically within our internal Decision Science Laboratory and automated Solution Engine. A deep understanding of multiple approaches is not expected, but applicants should be comfortable with deploying operational ML techniques across at least one of object detection, LLM/NLP, causal networks, reinforcement learning or track fusion. The ideal candidate will have a master's degree in computer science or in a quantitative field or a bachelor's degree plus suitable experience and a passion for applying advanced data science techniques to solve complex challenges in the Defense sector.
Role And Responsibilities
- Translate operational requirements into technical solutions, working closely with cross-functional teams.
- Apply and adapt state-of-the-art data science techniques to address broad Defense-related challenges, including object detection, track fusion, reinforcement learning, causal networks and LLM/RAG deployment.
- Conduct ML experiments and take responsibility for the subsequent operational deployment of selected approaches.
- Mentor and manage junior team members and foster a collaborative, innovative work environment.
- Apply and recommend data science best practices and contribute to shared resources.
- Pursue continuous learning and stay abreast of emerging trends in data science, AI, sensor technologies, and simulation techniques across Defense and Aerospace applications.
- 10 years of experience in Software Engineering with 5-8 additional years specific to AI
- Understanding of machine learning algorithms
- The ability to clean and organize data
- Experienced using Windows, Android, and Linux operating systems
- Database management, running and/or writing queries
- Experience with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript
- Strong foundation in statistics and predictions.
Metrea’s single core value “rooted in humility” is supported by four key attributes; entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning & over-deliver which combined; form our Teammate Firmware, our culture. These attributes are explored during the hiring process, when we grow our teams and to continually support the growth of our culture. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, and how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for
Benefits
Health and welfare
Retirement plan eligibility
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
Employee must be a US citizen.
Must successfully pass CI Polygraph.
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance at the Top
Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea Algorithmics (MAX) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.
Travel
None
Work Location
Annapolis Junction, MD
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting.
Physical Demands
This is a largely sedentary role; however, some physical abilities will be required
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this role successfully, an individual must be able to perform the responsibilities outlined in this job description to a satisfactory standard. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with additional needs to perform the essential functions.
Salary : $175,000 - $240,000