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Design, develop, and maintain Python backend services and Docker-based environments. Support Docker Swarm deployments, CI/CD workflows, automated testing, code reviews, and Agile ceremonies. Use GitLab, Jira, and Confluence for collaboration and documentation. Partner with product, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable features, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction.

Owns the systems engineering technical baseline across requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, and testing. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, translates mission needs into requirements, develops MBSE models and integration strategies, manages technical risks, supports customer reviews, and contributes to proposals and technical volumes. The role requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and supports distributed or cloud-native systems.

Develop, integrate, deploy, and sustain satellite ground software across the full software development lifecycle. Build full-stack, microservice-based applications supporting hardware command and control, mission planning, constraint checking, visualization, and user interfaces. Design software architecture, implement automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot production services, and collaborate with analysts, program management, and government customers. The role requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and occasional travel.

Owns the system technical baseline across requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, and testing. Coordinates systems, software, hardware, test, and operations teams; translates mission workflows into requirements; develops integration and V&V plans; uses MBSE, modeling, and simulation; manages technical risks; presents technical results; and supports proposals and technical documentation for classified aerospace programs.

Develop and analyze reusable algorithms for missile tracking and state estimation. Responsibilities include applying mathematics and statistics to data analysis, implementing tracking algorithms and motion filters, developing tools and prototypes in modern C++ and Python, testing and validating algorithms, resolving defects, and preparing technical documentation. The role requires collaboration across teams, Linux proficiency, numerical computing expertise, and support for travel up to 10%.

Design, develop, and productionize ML and LLM-based systems: implement models, build and optimize data pipelines, run experiments and A/B tests, deploy and serve models (containers/APIs), ensure code quality and reproducibility, and collaborate across engineering and systems teams while maintaining security and compliance for classified environments.

Serve as a Contractor Program Security Officer supporting SCIF/SAPF security operations, compliance, and accreditation. Manage PERSEC, COMSEC, OPSEC, document/control processes, IDS/ACS systems, policy implementation, audits, investigations, training, and stakeholder briefings to ensure adherence to DoD, NISPOM, and ICD requirements.

Design, implement, and assess system security architectures and controls to NIST, CNSSI, and DoD RMF standards. Provide cyber system engineering (ISSE) support, perform technical analyses, develop security baselines, and configure/implement tools like Rapid7, Trellix, and Splunk. Participate in requirements, integration, test, and ATO/IATT activities.

Deploy and manage Kubernetes-based services, perform end-to-end system integration and validation, maintain configuration-management baselines and traceability, support integration and regression testing, automate regression tests, troubleshoot Linux/Docker/Java services, manage risks and dependencies, and collaborate in an agile cross-functional team.

Serve as Infrastructure Product Owner for DevOps teams: define product backlog and roadmap, prioritize CI/CD and infrastructure work, coordinate Agile ceremonies, drive deployments and environment initialization (Terraform), and liaise with engineering, security, and leadership to deliver secure, production-ready infrastructure.