Senior AI Software Engineer (RD271)
Defense Unicorns1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and deliver complex software features and systems.
- Build AI-driven workflows for creating, packaging, validating, and maintaining mission applications.
- Develop agent orchestration that combines AI reasoning with deterministic tools, validation, and human oversight.
- Create secure, isolated development environments for AI agents and software execution.
- Integrate UDS packaging, Kubernetes, and software delivery tooling into automated workflows.
- Build systems for persistent application state, development workflows, and asynchronous execution.
- Develop automated testing and validation capabilities for generated software and UDS packages.
- Make technical and architecture decisions, resolve ambiguity, and collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering, and Mission Heroes.
- Debug issues across Kubernetes, virtualization, storage, networking, and operating systems.
- Improve reliability, security, performance, observability, and maintainability; review code and mentor teammates.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in a modern programming language, with Go and TypeScript preferred.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production software products.
- Experience integrating LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered capabilities into software applications.
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and application architecture.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native application development, automated validation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and independently deliver complex solutions.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred experience includes AI agent orchestration, coding agents, LLM evaluation, tool calling, MCP, secure sandboxing, Kata Containers, developer platforms, CLIs, Zarf, Helm, Kubernetes operators, software packaging, supply chain security, air-gapped environments, and open-source or developer-tooling contributions.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Benefits
- Remote work in the USA; travel expectations are 0–5%.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums 100% company paid, plus a health savings account, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and a home office budget.
- Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s, and paid parental leave.
- Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions, plus conference travel, lodging, and fees.
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About Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns builds platform software and services that streamline secure, cloud-native delivery for defense and federal programs, with emphasis on DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and air‑gapped environments. It provides software and professional services under government contracts to deploy open-architecture platforms and CI/CD pipelines across classified and disconnected systems. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, the privately held company serves U.S. defense and national security agencies.