Qualifications
- Typically 8+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership, including owning roadmaps, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers
- Strong software engineering or similar background with experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages common in AI/ML tooling
- Experience using the latest AI powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine tasks.
- Experience with large language model APIs, including prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agent frameworks (e.g. CrewAI, Pydantic AI).
- Demonstrated ability to work across a broad technical surface area, context-switching between infrastructure, application development, and platform architecture. Ability to work across teams to understand requirements and seek consensus
- Demonstrated experience owning technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that affect multiple teams or products, including setting technical standards and driving adoption
- Experience with building and using modern software development lifecycle best practices (CI/CD pipelines, continuous testing and monitoring)
- Experience deploying and operating production workloads to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical AI concepts for non-technical audiences through training, documentation, and direct support
- Self-directed and comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and the playbook is being written in real time
- US Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance
Additional requirements
- Work Location— Long Beach, CA, or Denver, CO. While we observe a hybrid work environment, you will need to be onsite as the business needs require. Onsite requirements are subject to change, particularly when work on classified systems is required. On an average week, you can expect to spend at least 3 days per week in office.
- Work environment—the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
- Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.
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To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
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