AI Cybersecurity Software Engineer for Navy Missions

Booz Allen Hamilton; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI Software Developer to support Navy cybersecurity efforts in the San Diego region. You will build and integrate software, automate workflows, and work with mission stakeholders to deliver secure, practical solutions.

The role requires translating mission needs into technical tasks, using APIs, data stores, and cloud/onsite patterns, while emphasizing responsible AI and secure engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in a role that includes software development, integration, or automation in a professional environment.
• Experience in Python for developing, testing, and debugging components others rely on services, automation, and data or integration utilities.
• Experience integrating APIs and working with relational, document, or NoSQL stores, and tracing failures across components.
• Experience delivering in small teams with Agile, Kanban, or structured collaboration, and with Git and code review norms.
• Experience with cloud or enterprise deployment patterns or on-prem integration environments.
• Ability to translate mission or security requirements into concrete technical tasks and explain tradeoffs to stakeholders.
• Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a STEM field.
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification.

Responsibilities

• Understand the client and the problem: participate in discussions with mission and technical partners to clarify objectives, constraints, and security or compliance boundaries.
• Shape solutions: contribute to technical approaches, tradeoff analysis, and implementation plans such as what to build or integrate, how to phase work, and what evidence or controls matter.
• Deliver hands-on technical work: design, implement, test, and troubleshoot scripts, services, APIs, or automation, including AI/LLM-assisted workflows where appropriate, so recommendations are credible and deployable, not slide-only.
• Integrate systems and data: work with REST/HTTP APIs, data stores, and enterprise or cloud patterns to connect capabilities safely and repeatably.
• Document and communicate: produce clear artifacts for technical and non-technical audiences such as design notes, limitations, operational implications, or security-relevant behaviors.
• Respect the cyber context: align work with RMF, control expectations, and secure engineering practices, and partner with cybersecurity and authorization stakeholders.
• Improve how we work: use version control, review practices, and lightweight testing appropriate to the engagement, and stay current on responsible AI expectations in government settings.

Skills

Python development

API integration

Agile / Kanban

Git and code reviews

Cloud deployment

Translate requirements to tasks

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Cybersecurity/IS/STEM

DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification

Tools

REST/HTTP APIs

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI Software Developer to support Navy cybersecurity efforts in the San Diego region. You will build and integrate software, automate workflows, and work with mission stakeholders to deliver secure, practical solutions.

The role requires translating mission needs into technical tasks, using APIs, data stores, and cloud/onsite patterns, while emphasizing responsible AI and secure engineering practices.