Senior Applications Engineer

Credence; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Credence in Tysons, VA is seeking a Senior Applications Engineer to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s DAAS AI/ML modernization. This hands-on role blends deep software engineering with front-end UI/UX work, tackling real enterprise applications and improving interfaces, dashboards, and data visualizations that executives and operators will actually use.

You will guide development teams, apply formal specifications and CASE tools, and provide cost and schedule estimates to leadership as you

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience with front-end and UI/UX skills.
• Ability to analyze complex requirements and design effective UI dashboards.
• Experience with enterprise applications and data visualizations.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and studying complex system requirements to inform software design and implementation decisions
• Designing software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses, and managing their implementation
• Managing software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques, and CASE tools
• Estimating software development costs and schedule, and communicating estimates and risks to program and project leadership
• Reviewing existing programs and assisting in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improving current

Skills

UI/UX development

Front-end development

Software engineering

Tools

CASE tools

Job description

Join a team where innovation meets mission. Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With more than 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI & data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with purpose.

We’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for six consecutive years and named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest‑Growing Private Companies in 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming environment for those looking to grow and make a meaningful impact. We encourage employees to push boundaries and help solve critical, world‑changing federal challenges.

Credence has an immediate opening for a Senior Applications Engineer who will be primarily responsible for supporting the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Automated Addressing Systems (DAAS), AI/ML program.

The Senior Applications Engineer analyzes and studies complex system requirements and leads the design and implementation of software tools and subsystems that support software reuse and domain analyses. This is a hands‑on role that pairs deep applications engineering with front-end UI/UX development: you will be handed real enterprise applications with real user friction, and part of your mandate is to diagnose why users aren’t engaging and rebuild experiences — interfaces, dashboards, and data visualizations surfacing AI/ML outputs — that they actually want to use. You will manage software development and support efforts using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques and Computer‑Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, while providing reliable cost and schedule estimates to program leadership. To succeed in this role, you should combine deep hands‑on engineering expertise with modern front‑end skills, the ability to guide development teams, improve existing systems, and enforce disciplined configuration management practices in support of DAAS AI/ML modernization efforts.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below

• Analyzing and studying complex system requirements to inform software design and implementation decisions
• Designing software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses, and managing their implementation
• Managing software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques, and Computer‑Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools
• Estimating software development costs and schedule, and communicating estimates and risks to program and project leadership
• Reviewing existing programs and assisting in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improving current