Senior Software Developer (NLP)

About the role

Pursue a career at Parsons where you can thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.

Responsibilities

• Create logical and functional software code in a variety of programming languages to support Drone Armor capabilities
• Lead the design and implementation of software components, services, and interfaces based on system and mission requirements
• Ensure solutions are robust, secure, maintainable, and aligned with program architecture and coding standards
• Design and implement services and pipelines that incorporate NLP models and text processing components into C-UAS workflows (e.g., analysis of communications, reports, or operator inputs)
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML/NLP engineers to integrate NLP models into production systems
• Implement and optimize NLP pipelines for tasks such as classification, entity extraction, summarization, translation, or intent detection, as required by mission needs
• Integrate large language models and other NLP components via APIs or model-serving infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and security
• Translate mission and operational requirements into concrete NLP features and user-facing capabilities
• Evaluate and recommend NLP libraries, frameworks, and platforms (e.g., transformer-based toolkits, vector databases, or text analytics services)
• Provide technical guidance to developers on language and framework selection, coding practices, architectural decisions, and NLP integration strategies
• React to software problems quickly and effectively, correcting code and related configurations as necessary
• Debug complex issues across multiple layers (application, service, interface, data) and environments (development, integration, field)
• Diagnose and resolve issues specific to NLP-enabled features, including latency, accuracy, unexpected outputs, and integration failures
• Support and refine unit, integration, and system-level tests, including tests for NLP components (e.g., input validation, model behavior checks, regression tests on text datasets) to validate functionality and prevent regressions
• Serve as a senior technical resource within the development team, mentoring junior and mid-level developers
• Collaborate with systems engineers, test engineers, data scientists, NLP/ML engineers, and field personnel to resolve issues and improve system performance
• Contribute to technical reviews, design walkthroughs, and continuous improvement of development and AI/NLP integration practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline is required with 5 years of experience OR 8 years of relevant software development experience may be substituted for education
• Experience creating logical and functional software code in multiple programming languages
• Experience understanding and clearly articulating the benefits and risks of different coding languages in different functional environments
• Experience reacting to software problems and correcting programs as necessary in complex or mission-critical systems
• Experience integrating or supporting NLP or text-analytics capabilities in production or mission-focused software systems

Desired Skills

• Advanced Education & Certifications: Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline, or relevant certifications in software architecture, cloud platforms, AI/ML, or DevSecOps
• Specialized Experience: Experience supporting DoD, defense, or C-UAS-related software systems, experience with distributed, real-time, or high-availability systems, experience applying NLP in operational, defense, or intelligence contexts (e.g., processing reports, chat/voice transcripts, or multilingual text sources)
• Additional Technical Skills: Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud-native development, experience with NLP/ML ecosystems and tools (e.g., transformer-based frameworks, vector databases, or LLM APIs) and related deployment patterns, familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and modern issue tracking/ALM tools

Pay

$103,500.00 - $181,100.00

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

We offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Equal Opportunity Employer

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

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