AI Software Engineer, Lead

About the role

Join us in shaping the development of systems across multiple defense, civilian, and space domains. You'll combine physics-based modeling, AI/ML techniques, autonomy, cyber, and platform engineering expertise to deliver customer-focused engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Translate real-world needs into technical solutions
• Support advanced system design, test, and evaluation
• Merge multiple technical engineering disciplines to create solutions that drive missions
• Contribute to solutions within a collaborative, Agile, and cross-functional team environment

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience implementing, maintaining, and supporting new and ongoing software development and architectures
• 5+ years of experience in software development using basic programming languages, technologies, tools, or web development stacks
• Experience with innovation and disruptive thinking
• Experience developing high-fidelity physics-based models and simulations, and digital twins
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, and test-driven code for new applications or improving legacy front-end systems
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or Golang
• Experience with AI assisted development, machine learning operation pipelines, big data, data science, or unbounded data streams
• Experience contributing to solutions within a collaborative, Agile, and cross-functional team environment

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering, Science, or Technology field

Skills

• Nice if you have:
• Experience with technical mentorship and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure robust, scalable, and secure M&S environments
• Experience with requirements and architecture development across the systems development lifecycle
• Experience with design of experiments, ANOVA, and other statistical tests
• Experience with foundation AI models, representation learning, computational and agent-based modeling, and machine learning integration
• Experience leading validation and test and evaluation by benchmarking against ground-truth data and quantifying resilience under contested conditions
• Knowledge of platform engineering, including deployment of workloads across cloud, such as AWS, Azure, or Cloud One, and on-premises HPC clusters
• Knowledge of multi-domain operations, such as air, land, sea, space, cyber, and EW
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, such as CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration
• Ability to work with automated testing tools to perform testing and maintenance

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Candidate AI Usage Policy: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model: Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role.

Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Identity Statement: As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.