Senior Applications Engineer

Electrosoft; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Electrosoft Services, LLC is seeking a highly experienced Senior Applications Engineer to lead the design, development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of advanced AI/ML and predictive analytics solutions supporting DoD logistics, in an AWS GovCloud environment.

The role translates complex business requirements into secure, scalable AI/ML solutions and provides technical leadership to engineers, collaborating with government stakeholders, hosting architects, cybersecurity teams, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing and deploying AI/ML, predictive analytics, or data science solutions in production or mission-oriented environments.
• Strong software engineering background with Python or other modern languages used for production AI/ML development.
• Experience with cloud-native application development, preferably in AWS or AWS GovCloud environments.
• Ability to develop scalable APIs, services, dashboards, or application capabilities for operational users.
• Excellent documentation and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex business, system, data, infrastructure, and application requirements and translate them into AI/ML solution designs.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and sustain ML models and analytics platforms.
• Lead development of AI capabilities supporting logistics, security, and operational use cases.
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, hosting architects, cybersecurity teams, and SMEs to prioritize and implement AI/ML use cases.
• Support AWS GovCloud implementation activities, including development, test, and production environments.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation including design specifications and security artifacts.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software developers, analysts, testers, and engineering team members.

Skills

Python

AI/ML understanding

Communication

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, AI, or another technical discipline

Tools

AWS GovCloud

SageMaker

Bedrock

Lambda

Glue

S3

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Electrosoft Services, LLC is an award-winning company that provides comprehensive technology-based solutions and services to federal customers. While cybersecurity is our specialty, we also focus on ICAM, Zero Trust, digital engineering and transformation, and enterprise AI and intelligent automation. We always seek to delight our customers, so we retain highly qualified employees and offer them meaningful work, growth opportunities, and work-life balance. What sets us apart from all other contractors is the sense of teamwork our employees feel – and the knowledge that outstanding effort is recognized and rewarded. The camaraderie we share emanates from Lunch & Learn sessions where we explore new ideas together, fun group activities ranging from escape rooms to miniature golf, and much, much more. If we’ve described you and your dream workplace, please apply and share in the many benefits and opportunities we offer.

Senior Applications Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Applications Engineer to lead the design, development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and predictive analytics solutions supporting the customer. The successful candidate will translate complex business requirements into secure, scalable AI/ML solutions operating within an AWS GovCloud environment and will support mission-critical DoD logistics capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze complex business, system, data, infrastructure, and application requirements and translate them into AI/ML solution designs.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and sustain machine learning models, analytics platforms, and supporting application components.
• Lead development of predictive, prescriptive, and generative AI capabilities supporting logistics, supply chain, security, infrastructure, and operational use cases.
• Develop reusable software tools, data pipelines, APIs, model components, and application subsystems that support software reuse and domain analysis.
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, hosting architects, cybersecurity teams, administrators, and technical SMEs to identify, prioritize, and implement high-value AI/ML use cases.
• Support AWS GovCloud implementation activities, including development, test, and production environments.
• Support Agile, DevSecOps, configuration management, release management, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation including design specifications, solution architecture documentation, requirements traceability matrices, test plans, test results, deployment plans, POA&Ms, and security artifacts.
• Support system testing, including unit, system, interface, regression, performance, integration, interoperability, negative, security, Section 508, and user acceptance testing.
• Support cybersecurity compliance activities including RMF, ATO artifacts, Zero Trust controls, CAC/PKI authentication, encryption at rest, vulnerability remediation, and IL-5 cloud hosting requirements.
• Monitor deployed model and application performance and recommend enhancements to improve accuracy, scalability, resilience, usability, and operational value.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software developers, analysts, testers, and engineering team members.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, or another technical discipline.
• Minimum ten (10) years of relevant technical experience.
• US Citizenship
• Experience analyzing complex system requirements and designing software tools, subsystems, or enterprise application components.
• Experience developing and deploying AI/ML, predictive analytics, or data science solutions in production or mission-oriented environments.
• Strong software engineering background with Python or other modern programming languages used for production AI/ML development.
• Experience with data engineering, data pipelines, model development, model testing, and model sustainment.
• Experience with cloud-native application development, preferably in AWS or AWS GovCloud environments.
• Experience developing scalable APIs, services, dashboards, or application capabilities supporting operational users.
• Ability to produce high-quality technical documentation and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a regulated Federal or DoD environment with strong attention to cybersecurity, privacy, and configuration management.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Department of Defense, Federal Government, or large-scale mission systems.
• Experience with logistics, supply chain, transportation, financial, geospatial, sensor, or transactional data analytics.
• Experience with AWS services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, Glue, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and related AI/ML or data services.
• Experience with MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or similar DevSecOps tooling.
• Experience with Large Language Models, Generative AI, graph neural networks, time-series analytics, anomaly detection, fraud detection, insider threat detection, or recommendation engines.
• Experience supporting RMF, ATO, STIG, ACAS remediation, POA&M development, or Section 508 compliance.
• Active or previous Tier 3 (T3), NACLC, IT-II, or higher background investigation or clearance eligibility.
  
  

Electrosoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled