Full Stack Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance) - Cloud & AI

visionist; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Employee-owned

15% retirement contribution

4 weeks PTO + 12 holidays + comp time

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Visionist is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to join critical missions supporting big data processing platforms. You will design, build, and maintain AI services at scale, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools.

A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required, and you will work on a team that values growth, mentorship, and secure software practices. We offer a strong employee-owned culture, competitive retirement benefits, generous PTO, and a focus on work-life balance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 2 years of experience may substitute degree)
• 6 years of experience in software development
• One of the following certifications: AWS Developer Associate, AWS ML Associate, AWS ML Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKAD
• Proven experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
• Experience designing and optimizing high-volume web application architectures
• Strong Python programming skills or equivalent
• Experience with observability tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to obtain/maintain a U.S. government security clearance

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure to support AI model inference at scale
• Support development and maintenance of production AI services and applications, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and autonomous agents
• Navigate ambiguous requirements to define scalable, well-structured technical solutions
• Drive adoption of new technologies, tools, and best practices across engineering teams
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability solutions for AI services
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Ensure availability, reliability, performance, and scalability of AI platform components
• Provide technical guidance and informal mentorship to junior engineers

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's in technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Visionist is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to join critical missions supporting big data processing platforms. You will design, build, and maintain AI services at scale, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools.

A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required, and you will work on a team that values growth, mentorship, and secure software practices. We offer a strong employee-owned culture, competitive retirement benefits, generous PTO, and a focus on work-life balance