Cleared Senior Software Engineer, Computer Vision, Federal
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
Full Time Senior-level / Expert Clearance required USD 140K - 220K
CCRi
CCRi takes on technically challenging projects that give our clients the informational leverage they need to attain new levels of speed, accuracy, and productivity.GA-CCRi maintains and deploys production systems for users across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and commercial industry. We build and develop best-in-class all domain and globally focused situational awareness capabilities, including THRESHER and DRAGONSPELL, that process petabytes of data from numerous streaming data sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features and fuse data from multiple phenomenologies to form a rich live view of objects in the sky, on the sea, and on the ground. These analytics are designed to determine not just where something is, but what it is, where it's been and what it's doing. All of this "data to knowledge" is made available to end users in our own browser-based application for visualization, analysis, and understanding. We always want to do more, and that's where you come in!
GA-CCRi is looking for a Software Engineer to join our federal team to develop scalable, high-performant cloud-based computer vision systems focused on the automated detection of objects in satellite imagery. State of the art Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are used in AI/ML pipelines to process large volumes of satellite imagery. Object detections from the platform are used by the community to search for objects, maintain object custody, and in Multi-INT analytics.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Under limited supervision, develop, integrate, and maintain cloud-based image processing pipelines and infrastructure that process satellite imagery at scale in a cloud environment
- Develop test scripts and frameworks to verify and validate functionality
- Maintain existing capabilities deployed to customer facilities and cloud environments including debugging and updating to keep pace with the evolving environment and technology
- Understand customer, user, and operational requirements and implement new functionality into software products
- Document and communicate highly technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences in a clear and effective manner
- Communicate with management, customers, developers, and users
- Work directly with internal and external developers to transition applications into the computer vision platform
- Maintain the strict confidentiality of sensitive information
- Observe all laws, regulations and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company
- Work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices
- Willing to provide leadership and mentoring for more junior computer vision engineers
- Willing to lead a team of computer vision engineers, either on a temporary or permanent basis
Requirements
- Ability to transfer and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and a CI poly is required.
- Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, or PhD in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; nine or more years of experience with a Bachelors degree, seven or more years of experience with a Masters degree, or four or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
- Strong experience with cloud-based technologies, including AWS or Azure
- Experience with software development lifecycle and use of associated tools
- Linux
- Highly proficient programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, Scala, Go, Rust
- An understanding of formal software engineering principles including design, documentation, ticketing systems, version control and Agile methodologies
- Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving requirement
- Exceptional analytical skills and problem-solving skills
- High level of self-initiative and self-motivation
- Ability to work effectively in small steam settings to solve complex problems
- Strong organization, communication, decision making, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Customer focused, formulates plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving advanced software development problems
- CompTIA Security+ or willingness to get certified
Desired Skills and Experience
- Curious and excited to learn new technologies
- Excited about understanding our customer’s needs and mission
- Interested in maintaining and adapting existing codebases
- Satellite image processing and computer vision applications
- Image processing libraries such as GDAL, OpenCV
- Experienced with full lifecycle development
- Able to build and deploy working prototypes
- GEOINT AI/ML pipelines
- Geospatial data processing
- Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm
- Data brokers such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Knative
- CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Jenkins)
- RESTful APIs
- Databases technologies (PostgreSQL, Redis, or other DBs)
Travel Percentage Required
0-10%
Relocation Assistance Provided
Yes
US Citizenship Required?
Yes
Clearance Required?
Yes
Clearance Level
Ability to transfer and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and a CI poly is required.
Pay Range
$140,000-$220,000
Benefits
- Casual Work Environment
- Intellectually Challenging Work
- Health Insurance including FSA, HSA and Tricare Supplement options
- Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
- Generous Defined Retirement Benefit, including both a 401K match and pension plan.
- Very Flexible Vacation Policy
- The job description above is not intended to be comprehensive list. Responsibilities, activities, duties, and/or tasks may change or be assigned at any time.
CCRi is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce because we know that our differences benefit our employees, our customers, and our community. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a an individual with a disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Tags: Agile APIs AWS Azure CI/CD Computer Science Computer Vision Engineering GitLab Helm Java Kafka Kubernetes Linux Machine Learning OpenCV PhD Pipelines PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ Rust Scala Security Streaming
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Insurance Relocation support
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