1 day ago
New Bedford, MA, USA +5 moreSenior
Base Salary
$129k - $194k/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 agents integrated into software development practices.
- Prototype mission capabilities and mature them into production systems with security, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost controls.
- Define and enforce guardrails for approved AI tools and models, data handling, secrets, provenance, auditability, prompting, and policy compliance.
- Establish evaluation and quality gates for AI-generated artifacts, including automated tests, static and security analysis, coding standards, CI checks, acceptance criteria, and human review.
- Architect and operate distributed AWS and multi-cloud systems, APIs, backend services, data flows, pipelines, orchestration, and DevSecOps automation.
- Produce documentation, runbooks, and compliance-ready evidence for AI-assisted engineering and observability integrations.
- Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, advise stakeholders and customers, and support sustained programs and rapid-response mission needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of related experience, or a Master’s degree with at least 3 years of related experience, or a PhD with relevant experience and immediate ability to contribute.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and Python proficiency, including secure coding, code review, automated testing, and maintainable design patterns.
- Hands-on experience with 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, unit and integration testing, static and security analysis, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Leadership and enablement skills involving mentoring, engineering standards, stakeholder advising, responsible adoption, and change management.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance and be a U.S. citizen to qualify for clearance consideration.
- Preferred qualifications include an advanced technical degree, active Top Secret clearance, production LLM or agent system experience, platform engineering and DevSecOps expertise, cloud-native operations, observability, and MLOps or model-serving experience.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and professional development opportunities are provided.
- The role is onsite and requires a minimum of three days per week on-site.
- The hired candidate must obtain a Secret clearance within one year of hire; no clearance is required at the time of requisition.
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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.