10 days ago
New Bedford, MA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$157k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, secure, and operate mission software and data platforms using agentic and AI-assisted workflows.
- Stand up and operate agentic development toolchains, including code, test, review, copilot, and automation capabilities.
- Prototype and mature agentic mission capabilities into secure, reliable, scalable, observable production systems.
- Define and enforce guardrails covering approved tools and models, data handling, secrets, provenance, auditability, prompting, and policy compliance.
- Establish evaluation and quality gates for AI-generated artifacts, including testing, static and security analysis, coding standards, CI checks, and human review.
- Architect, build, and operate distributed cloud systems and integrate APIs, backend services, data flows, pipelines, and orchestration.
- Automate DevSecOps and release processes with supply-chain security, dependency and container scanning, IaC scanning, SAST/DAST, and policy-as-code controls.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, observability integrations, and compliance-ready evidence for AI-assisted engineering.
- Mentor teams, advise stakeholders and customers on agentic adoption, establish engineering standards, and drive process improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related experience, or a Master’s degree with 6 years, or a PhD with 3 years, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and Python proficiency, including secure coding, code review, automated testing, and maintainable design patterns.
- Hands-on experience using agentic or AI-assisted development tools and integrating them into the software development lifecycle.
- Experience designing guardrails for AI-enabled engineering, including tool and model selection, prompt and context hygiene, secrets handling, provenance, auditability, and compliance constraints.
- Experience establishing evaluation and quality practices for AI-generated outputs, including automated checks, tests, static and security analysis, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Leadership and enablement experience involving mentoring, engineering standards, stakeholder or customer advising, and change management.
- Preferred experience building, deploying, and operating production LLM or agent systems, including RAG, tool or function calling, and orchestration frameworks.
- Preferred experience with AI and agent security, threat modeling, red-teaming, prompt-injection defenses, data-loss prevention, least-privilege execution, sandboxing, and content filtering.
- Preferred platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud-native operations, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, observability, MLOps, model serving, and software supply-chain controls experience.
- Preferred experience supporting mission or operational systems, external integrations, regulated environments, and audit-ready evidence.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Government security clearance and be a U.S. citizen; the preferred qualifications also state that an active Secret clearance is required.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits, meaningful career development, professional development, and a culture emphasizing innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and career growth.
- Onsite work arrangement requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite.
- The hired candidate must obtain a Top Secret clearance within one year of hire.
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About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.