Software Engineer

Adelphi Inc
McLean, VA, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

JavaScript (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services User Authentication Encodings Data Sharing DevOps Django Web Framework Python (Programming Language) Operational Databases Site Reliability Engineering Practices Next.js
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Software Engineering TypeScript Google Cloud ReactJS Flask (Web Framework) Large Language Models Fastapi Kubernetes Machine Learning Operations Docker

Job description

About the Role: As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to technical direction and help build and maintain mission-critical platform features. This role requires a mix of software development and ML Ops practices. The right candidate will bring solid experience building and shipping production services across the full data stack. Experience in the national security field is a plus. We are an AI-native engineering team. We expect every engineer to leverage LLMs and AI tooling as a core part of how they design, build, ship, and debug software as an integral, daily extension of their workflow., We are an AI-native engineering team. We expect every engineer to leverage LLMs and AI tooling as a core part of how they design, build, ship, and operate agentic systems that turn frontier-model capability into mission outcomes.

Requirements

Clearance Requirement: An active U.S. Government clearance is strongly preferred, but we are open to clearance eligible candidates., * Experience: You have 4-7 years of software engineering experience and are comfortable owning features end-to-end in a production environment. You think in systems, ask good questions, and thrive with autonomy.

  • Domain & Tech Stack: You have experience working with production data, are proficient in Python (Flask, FastAPI, or Django), and are comfortable in TypeScript/JavaScript (React, Next.js). Familiarity with AWS is a plus. Interest in government or national security environments is a strong plus.
  • AI-Native by Default: You use AI coding tools daily and instinctively, leverage LLMs across your development workflow, and have a clear-eyed view of when to trust AI-generated output and when to verify.
  • Mission-Driven: You are excited by how AI enables better solutions to hard, long-standing problems like data sharing, and you want to see that work deployed in environments where it matters.

Bonus Points:

  • Familiarity with vector stores or embedding-based systems.
  • Infrastructure experience (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP).
  • Exposure to encryption, authentication, DevOps, or SRE practices.
  • Any production experience with agentic services leveraging LLMs, embeddings, or inference.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description Health insurance 401(k) matching 401(k) 2% match, * Healthcare coverage: 100% employee premium and 50% dependents premium coverage of a platinum-level plan.

  • 401K with 2% company match.
  • $500 monthly Physical and Mental Health reimbursement program.
  • Unlimited time-off policy.
  • Competitive salary and equity compensation.
  • Opportunity to work on impactful projects in the national security sector.
  • Career growth and leadership opportunities in a dynamic, innovative environment.

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