Remote Position
Mission Software Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Serve as the Business Development team’s technical lead throughout the opportunity lifecycle
- Engage customers and mission users to uncover operational needs, constraints, priorities, and decision criteria
- Translate customer requirements into solution concepts, architectures, implementation approaches, and value propositions
- Develop technical win strategies and support opportunity qualification and capture decisions
- Lead technical demonstrations, prototypes, presentations, white papers, proposals, and solicitation responses
- Coordinate with product, engineering, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and industry partners
- Architect mission software across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments
- Design for classified, disconnected, intermittent, and bandwidth-limited environments
- Shape secure, resilient, scalable, and ATO-ready solutions using Agile delivery, AI-assisted development, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, testing, and observability
- Apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate development and improve decision support
- Communicate technical value, architectures, risks, and tradeoffs to technical, operational, acquisition, and executive audiences
- Maintain technical continuity through negotiations and opportunity closure
- Define reusable solution patterns and technical standards for the mission software portfolio
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Active Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility
- Ability to travel up to 25%+ of the time
- 3+ years of experience applying AI tools and techniques to software development
- Experience designing, architecting, and delivering large-scale software systems in complex or mission-critical environments
- Strong full-stack software development experience across application, backend, and systems layers
- Experience with modern Agile DevSecOps practices, automated CI/CD, cloud architecture, and Infrastructure as Code
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity, authorization, and accreditation requirements for defense or highly regulated environments
- Experience engaging directly with customers or operational stakeholders
- Ability to translate mission and customer needs into technical solutions, architectures, prototypes, and demonstrations
- Experience developing and presenting technical materials, proposals, white papers, and technical responses
- Strong communication and stakeholder-engagement skills
- Mission-focused and adaptable mindset for ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Preferred: experience deploying software in classified, contested, disconnected, or edge environments
- Preferred: familiarity with Modular Open Systems Approaches and Model-Based Systems Engineering
- Preferred: experience integrating AI or machine learning into operational software systems
- Preferred: knowledge of defense acquisition, cybersecurity, and ATO processes
- Preferred: experience with warfighters, mission operators, or government technical stakeholders
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary and opportunities for additional performance-based compensation, where applicable
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee premiums covered by the company
- Flexible time-off approach
- Flexible, trust-based work environment
- Paid company holidays
- Collaborative culture focused on innovation, humor, collaboration, and meaningful, high-impact work
- Equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers