2 months ago
Rockville, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop production-ready AI-native applications, autonomous agents, agentic workflows, and supporting platform infrastructure.
- Use Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools for implementation, prompt iteration, and maintenance.
- Build front-end and full-stack applications with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vite, AWS services, WebSockets, and REST APIs.
- Develop AWS Bedrock agent architectures, multi-turn workflows, RAG and Graph-RAG systems, MCP tools, and AI evaluation and safety pipelines.
- Build governed AWS data lakehouse and engineering-data integration capabilities using S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, Iceberg, CDC pipelines, and enterprise engineering-system connectors.
- Design and maintain containerized applications, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, observability, release automation, and production support.
- Collaborate with systems-engineering, licensing, quality-assurance, development, and internal customer teams to document architecture, validate solutions, and meet nuclear-quality and regulatory expectations.
- Support data governance, identity federation, export-control requirements, data lineage, validation pipelines, technical roadmaps, reviews, prototypes, and on-call incident response.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Engineering, or a related field from an accredited institution.
- Typically five years of relevant software engineering experience, including experience in at least one listed specialization track.
- Experience with Git, GitLab, CI/CD, modern development workflows, Jira, Confluence, and AI-enhanced development environments such as Claude Code.
- Experience working collaboratively in fast-paced development teams and communicating complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Track A applicants should have working knowledge of React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vite, Bun, Tailwind CSS, WebSockets, REST APIs, user-interface development, and AWS web-application deployment.
- Track B applicants should have knowledge of LLMs, agentic architectures, AWS Bedrock or comparable tools, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, RAG, Graph-RAG, TypeScript, Python, Node.js/Express, FastAPI, and AI evaluation methods or frameworks.
- Track C applicants should have experience or familiarity with data lakes/lakehouses, ETL, AWS data services, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake or Apache Hudi, canonical data models, schema governance, enterprise engineering-system integrations, identity federation, and engineering data formats.
- Track D applicants should have experience with Docker, GitLab CI/CD, AWS ECS, ECR, VPC, Terraform, release automation, monitoring and observability, Linux or macOS command-line environments, and container orchestration.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in nuclear energy, aerospace, defense, or other regulated fields; digital engineering, MBSE, PLM and requirements systems; graph databases; NQA-1; 10 CFR 50 Appendix B; AWS GovCloud; FedRAMP; ITAR, EAR, or 10 CFR 810; and MCP tool development.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule requiring office attendance Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with the work site in the Rockville/Gaithersburg, Maryland area.
- Full-time exempt position with standard hours of 8:00am-5:00pm ET, Monday-Friday.
- Up to 10% travel as needed.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development support.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSDatadogDockerExpressFastAPIGitJavaScriptNeo4jNode.jsPythonReactRedisTailwind CSSTerraformTypeScript
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About X-energy
X-energy designs and sells advanced high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors (Xe-100) and TRISO nuclear fuel for utilities and energy-intensive industries. Privately held and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, the company is building its TRISO-X fuel manufacturing campus in East Tennessee to support commercial deployment. It provides reactor and fuel supply, licensing support, and lifecycle engineering services for grid power, industrial heat, and microreactor applications.