Senior AI Software Engineer (TS/SCI)
Maxar Technologies20 hours ago
St. Louis, MO, USA or Westminster, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$145k - $205k/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, authorization, data-access policies, citations, provenance, audit records, and system limitations.
- Test and evaluate AI quality, safety, latency, usability, prompt-injection protections, data-leakage protections, and prevention of unauthorized actions.
- Deploy and operate AI services in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, including restricted or disconnected environments.
- Collaborate with technical and customer teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production applications or services.
- Hands-on experience integrating generative AI or LLMs into production applications using RAG, embeddings, vector search, function calling, or agent workflows.
- Strong Python skills and experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, C++, or another modern language.
- Experience building REST APIs or microservices and using Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile development practices.
- Experience integrating enterprise data sources and applying secure identity, authorization, and data-protection controls.
- U.S. Person status and an active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph, or the ability to obtain the required clearance and polygraph.
- Willingness to work 75% or as needed in a SCIF environment in Herndon, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; or St. Louis, Missouri.
- Preferred experience with React, TypeScript, comparable web frameworks, usability practices, AI orchestration frameworks, model gateways, MCP-compatible services, and agent-to-tool integration.
- Preferred experience deploying commercial, open-source, or locally hosted LLMs in cloud, on-premises, classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments.
- Preferred experience with vector search, Elasticsearch, knowledge graphs, GIS, imagery, 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 with a robust 401(k) and company match.
- Mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The role is based in or requires substantial work in a SCIF in Herndon, VA; Denver, CO; or St. Louis, MO, with work in the SCIF 75% or as needed.
- 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.