Leidos

AI Native Software Developer

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1 day ago
Reston, VA, USAEntry Level
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Base Salary

$87k - $157k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build microservices supporting the platform’s Sense, Predict, Orchestrate, and Measure operating model.
  • Integrate real-time ATC, manifest, border-processing, detection, kiosk, and e-Gate data feeds and contribute to the AI Detection Algorithm Marketplace.
  • Build adapters and connectors that normalize diverse source schemas into a canonical event model.
  • Deliver dynamic staffing, lane management, passenger routing, exception management, communications, reporting, and predictive-maintenance features.
  • Develop calibrated queue, connection-miss, baggage, crowding, and disruption-propagation models and integrate LLM/RAG components for explanations and recommendations.
  • Implement privacy-by-design and zero-trust controls, including tokenization, policy-scoped access, data minimization, and retention or expiry controls.
  • Write clean, tested code and implement unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, deterministic replay, and backtesting strategies.
  • Support troubleshooting, performance tuning, and continuous improvement in collaboration with systems engineering, product delivery, DevSecOps, and QA teams.

Requirements

  • BS/BA degree with five years of related experience, a master’s degree with two years of related experience, or four years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation.
  • Hands-on microservices experience and proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, or C++.
  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools or AI/ML-enabled systems, event-driven or streaming architectures, stream or batch processing, and distributed-system APIs.
  • Experience enhancing and maintaining existing software while preserving operational stability and translating complex distributed systems into higher-level architecture.
  • Preferred experience includes border or aviation customers, SAFe, Kafka, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevSecOps, stream processing, machine learning, MLOps, LLM/RAG development, infrastructure as code, privacy engineering, observability, TypeScript, React, and aviation data standards.

Benefits

  • Hybrid position requiring three days per week in the Reston, Virginia office.
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About Leidos

10,000+ employees

Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.

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