DevOps Software Developer

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high-resolution surveillance systems.

• *DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:**
• Determine user requirements and specifications and plan for software development within the broader organizational scope.
• Design data pipelines and engineering infrastructure to support enterprise level operationalization
• Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to productionize models for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat operations
• Develop and deploy scalable tools and services for rapid training and inference at the edge
• Identify and evaluate new technologies to improve performance, maintainability, and reliability systems
• Apply robust software engineering best practices to ecosystem, including CI/CD, automation, etc.
• Support stable and repeatable model development, with an emphasis on traceability, version control, adversarial robustness and data security
• Help develop and deploy proof-of-concept machine learning systems to the warfighter
• Communicate with stakeholders to develop roadmaps and implementation schedules
• Performs other duties as assigned or required

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

• *Job Qualifications
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or related discipline and two or more years progressive software development experience with a bachelor’s degree. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Must understand machine learning development concepts, principles, and theory and demonstrate complete understanding and model development and analysis concepts.
• Experience building end-to-end systems focused on productionizing AI/ML technology in a distributed computing environment
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Ability to organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases and, determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level and to provide solutions to a range of complex problems.
• Must have strong communication, computer, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team; and, lead a team of less experienced professional employees on semi-routine tasks.
• Experience using/configuring/maintaining the following technologies:
• Source code and data control repositories (GIT, SVN, MLFlow, DVC, S3 etc.)
• Continuous Integration Environment (Jenkins, Gitlab, etc.)
• Linux and associated technologies (RedHat based)
• Provisioning tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Package managers and associated tools (RPMs, Yum, Pypi, pip, Artifactory, etc.)
• Hypervisors (VMWare, VirtualBox, QEMU, etc), containers (Docker, Podman, etc), and related tools (Vagrant, Packer, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Webservers and associated tools (Apache, NGINX, etc)
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Desktop as a Service (DAAS), "golden image" creation, and related virtualization technologies
• Cloud computing infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• CI/CD pipelines and orchestration of distributed AI/ML compute
• Software process automation with popular scripting languages (Python, Bash, Powershell, Ansible)
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language (C#, C , Python, and/or Java)
• Experience developing machine learning models using scikit-learn, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.
• Ability to understand tools used by data scientists and experience with automation of these processes
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance is required.
• *Job Category

Engineering

• *Experience Level**

Entry-Level (0-2 years)

• *Workstyle**

Onsite

• *Full-Time/Part-Time**

Full-Time Hourly

• *Pay Range Low**

87,070

• *Pay Range High**

132,963

• *Travel Percentage Required**

0% - 25%

• *Relocation Assistance Provided?**

No

• *US Citizenship Required?**

Yes

• *Clearance Required?**

Desired

• *Clearance Level**

Secret