Senior AI Platform & Applications Engineer
General Dynamics Mission Systems2 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$133k - $144k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate the Growth AI Platform vision into a sequenced roadmap, investment options, measurable outcomes, delivery plans, and target architecture.
- Partner with subject-matter experts to frame business problems, develop and evaluate prototypes, and mature selected concepts into secure enterprise applications.
- Build, test, deploy, document, and improve shared Python services, APIs, data and AI capabilities, developer tooling, and selected enterprise applications.
- Assess applications for architectural, integration, identity, security, data, reliability, observability, and support readiness before deployment.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, maintain operational procedures, manage technical debt and lifecycle needs, and improve platform scalability.
- Create reusable patterns, reference implementations, automated delivery controls, and technical guidance for developers.
- Communicate technical choices, tradeoffs, risks, value, and progress to engineers, business partners, and senior executives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field plus 8 years of related experience, or a master's degree plus 6 years of related experience; equivalent relevant experience may substitute.
- Advanced application-development experience across design, development, testing, deployment, administration, support, and modernization.
- Strong Python development skills and experience building secure APIs and integrations with enterprise systems, data, identity, and infrastructure.
- Experience partnering with subject-matter experts to define problems, develop prototypes, incorporate feedback, and mature solutions for enterprise use.
- Experience collaborating with enterprise or solution architects on scalable and compliant application designs.
- Experience with automated functional and nonfunctional testing, peer review, CI/CD, security scanning, dependency management, observability, and DevSecOps practices.
- Production-oriented experience applying AI, machine learning, or large language models.
- Advanced problem-solving skills and demonstrated technical leadership through judgment, delivery, mentoring, and influence.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills across technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Certified application developer credential indicating advanced or expert application-development knowledge is strongly preferred.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise platform or shared-service lifecycle management, prototype-to-production business application delivery, LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, knowledge services, data pipelines, model evaluation, containers, automated delivery, configuration management, monitoring, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and technical standards influence.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based in Chantilly, Virginia, with regular onsite presence required at least two days per week and additional onsite work as business, project, or customer needs require.
- Flexible work environment with contributions recognized and rewarded.
- Competitive benefits are offered.
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About General Dynamics Mission Systems
General Dynamics Mission Systems designs and manufactures secure communications, C4ISR, cyber defense, and maritime/underwater systems used across land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains. It sells integrated hardware and software to U.S. and allied defense and intelligence agencies under government contracts and long-term programs. The company is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, and operates as a business unit of General Dynamics.