AI Software Engineer (TS/SCI)
Maxar Technologies3 days ago
Westminster, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate AI chatbots and assistants into geospatial, analytics, visualization, and mission-support applications.
- Build natural-language workflows for data discovery, application navigation, visualization generation, and approved actions.
- Implement prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, and conversation context patterns.
- Connect AI services to REST APIs, data catalogs, search platforms, knowledge graphs, geospatial services, notebooks, and dashboards.
- Develop reusable backend services and frontend components for analyst-facing AI assistance.
- Enforce identity, entitlements, data-access policies, citations, provenance, audit records, and clear system limitations.
- Test and evaluate AI quality, safety, latency, and usability, including protections against prompt injection, data leakage, and unauthorized actions.
- Deploy and operate AI services in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, including restricted or disconnected environments, while collaborating with technical and customer teams.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance are required, with willingness to obtain a CI poly.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, or a related field is required.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production applications or services is required.
- Hands-on experience integrating generative AI or LLMs into production applications using RAG, embeddings, vector search, function calling, or agent workflows is required.
- Strong Python skills and experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, C++, or another modern language are required.
- Experience building APIs or microservices, using Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile development practices is required.
- Experience integrating enterprise data sources and applying secure identity, authorization, and data-protection controls is required.
- Preferred qualifications include React and TypeScript chatbot interfaces, AI orchestration frameworks, model gateways, MCP-compatible services, agent-to-tool integration, LLM deployment in restricted environments, vector search, Elasticsearch, knowledge graphs, GIS, geospatial applications, AI safety controls, human-in-the-loop approvals, model monitoring, evaluation, GPU workloads, model serving, containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The role is onsite, as indicated by the posting tags.
- The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
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About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.