Sr. Full-Stack Engineer
Culmen International LLC5 days ago
Alexandria, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, integrate, field, and sustain secure software for USPACOM J32 joint targeting and fires-planning workflows.
- Develop operator-facing Target-Effect Pairing applications with ranked recommendations, alternatives, constraints, tradeoffs, and explanations.
- Build backend services for workflow orchestration, recommendation processing, review, adjudication, approval routing, deconfliction, and draft force assignment.
- Translate Joint Fires, targeting, and operational subject-matter-expert input into intuitive, explainable workflows.
- Implement human-machine teaming controls, role- and attribute-based access controls, classification-aware data handling, secure communications, and tamper-evident auditing.
- Integrate with Maven Smart System, object-management systems, simulation services, and command-and-control interfaces through secure APIs and event-driven patterns.
- Create automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security tests for Government acceptance and independent test and evaluation.
- Collaborate with operators, targeting experts, data engineers, security teams, and Government system owners, and participate in planning, demonstrations, reviews, and fielding.
- Produce maintainable code, API documentation, architecture decision records, release notes, runbooks, and transition materials.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience delivering complex, data-intensive applications.
- Experience supporting intelligence targeting, joint targeting, fires planning, operational planning, intelligence analysis, command-and-control, or decision-support systems in a Combatant Command, Service Component, Intelligence Community, or DoD operational environment.
- Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks, backend services, relational or document databases, and automated testing.
- Experience building workflow, mission-planning, decision-support, command-and-control, or operational intelligence applications.
- Experience with data provenance, audit logging, workflow state management, access controls, and configuration or model versioning.
- Familiarity with containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and secure cloud or on-premises environments.
- Ability to transform complex operational and doctrinal processes into usable, explainable software and collaborate with operational users through frequent demonstrations and feedback.
- Understanding of human-centered design for high-consequence workflows where recommendations must be transparent, reviewable, and reversible.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical decisions to operational and Government stakeholders.
- Eligibility for TS/SCI clearance; active clearance is strongly preferred.
- Ability to support onsite engagement with USPACOM J32 operators as mission needs require.
- Preferred experience includes joint targeting, Joint Fires, weaponeering, target-effect pairing, force assignment, course-of-action analysis, DoD classified environments, restricted networks, Maven Smart System, optimization or recommendation systems, independent testing and evaluation, and Government production deployments.
Benefits
- The position is onsite at the Mark Center in the National Capital Region and requires the candidate to be located in the NCR.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance are provided, with employee premiums fully paid by Culmen and dependent coverage available at a nominal rate.
- 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and a 4% company match.
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage.
- Supplemental insurance is available.
- Training and continuing education opportunities are provided.
- 12 paid holidays.
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About Culmen International LLC
Culmen International is a privately held government services and international affairs firm headquartered in Alexandria, VA, founded in 2004. The company delivers contracted technical, management, logistics, procurement, research and analysis, and technology solutions to U.S. government agencies, multinational organizations, and foreign partners, spanning security assistance, export controls, foreign military sales, language services, data analytics, and agile software. It operates on six continents, with personnel based in 40+ countries and project work in 140+ countries.