Senior Applications Engineer
Credence Management Solutions, LLC2 months ago
Tysons, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build performant, responsive, accessible user interfaces using React, Next.js, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Audit existing applications through heuristic analysis, user research, and behavioral data to improve adoption, usability, engagement, and task completion.
- Design interactive dashboards and data visualizations for AI/ML outputs, analytics, and operational metrics.
- Develop reusable component libraries and design systems across multiple products.
- Analyze complex requirements and design, implement, and manage software tools and subsystems using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and CASE tools.
- Mentor junior developers and guide software development and support efforts.
- Estimate development costs and schedules, communicate risks, and document results for program and project leadership.
- Supervise software configuration management, version control, change control, and release integrity.
- Contribute to code reviews, Jenkins and Git workflows, Sonatype Nexus artifact and dependency governance, and JIRA activities.
- Collaborate with data engineers and ML teams to represent AI/ML outputs accurately in front-end dashboards and visualizations.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance.
- BA/BS in a technical discipline from an accredited university.
- At least 10 years of applicable experience in applications engineering, software development, or a related discipline.
- Experience analyzing complex system requirements, designing software tools and subsystems, and managing development with formal specifications, data flow diagrams, accepted design techniques, and CASE tools.
- Experience estimating software development costs and schedules and managing software configuration processes.
- Demonstrated experience developing and deploying machine learning models in operational or production environments.
- Experience engineering AI-driven anomaly detection models, including time-series forecasting approaches such as Prophet, for API traffic or system telemetry.
- At least 5 years of hands-on UI/UX design and front-end development experience with a portfolio showing measurable user-experience impact.
- Experience improving adoption or usability of complex enterprise or government applications.
- Expert proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS, with deep familiarity with WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
- Experience with D3.js, Chart.js, Recharts, or similar visualization libraries and UX research methods such as usability testing, journey mapping, and heuristic evaluation.
- Proficiency with Git, JIRA, Jenkins, and Sonatype Nexus.
- Desired skills include Python, Golang, C++, C, SQL, Java, AWS, Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks, PySpark, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Azure, XGBoost, SVM, Random Forest, kNN, Cosine Similarity, NLP, Alteryx, AWS SageMaker, Tableau, GitHub, Flask, NodeJS, ReactJS, Django, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Copilot or Cursor.
- Desired certifications include AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, CompTIA Security+ ce, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace arrangement.
- Health care plan covering medical, dental, and vision.
- Retirement plan including 401k and IRA options.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Maternity and paternity family leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Free food and snacks.
- Wellness resources.
- Stock option plan.
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About Credence Management Solutions, LLC
Credence Management Solutions, LLC provides IT consulting, engineering, and mission support to U.S. federal agencies, with emphasis on defense, intelligence, health, and humanitarian programs. It builds and operates secure AI, cloud, cyber, and DevSecOps solutions and delivers program management and systems engineering under government contracts. The privately held firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and supports customers such as the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.