
Senior Cleared Software Engineer (TS/SCI)
Kaizen Labs1 month ago
Washington, DC, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$220k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and ship full-stack features from scoping and technical design through production.
- Build and integrate Foundry ontologies and pipelines, AIP agents, and Maven Smart System workflows.
- Develop AI-powered intake flows, constituent assistants, automated case routing, and agency dashboards.
- Set technical direction, improve code quality, and establish reusable engineering patterns.
- Engage federal agency stakeholders to translate complex requirements into shippable software.
- Own platform reliability and performance at government scale.
- Mentor earlier-career engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical feedback.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience is required.
- Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, AIP, or Maven Smart System is required.
- Deep experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, and Postgres is required.
- Experience shipping a real product, open-source project, or personally designed system is required.
- Ability to define problems, work through ambiguity, and maintain a strong end-user focus is required.
- Experience in classified or accredited environments, government or regulated technology, Forward Deployed Engineering, or Palantir-led programs is preferred.
- Cloud deployment experience with AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, or ECS/Fargate is preferred.
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, and early-stage technical leadership is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully covered employee medical, dental, and vision insurance, with dependents fully covered.
- $100,000 of company-paid life insurance plus FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
- One Medical membership and fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
- 401(k) through Guideline with a 2% company match.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum, federal holidays off, and a company winter break.
- Hybrid work based in New York City or Washington, DC, with office attendance Tuesday through Thursday at least three times weekly.
- Home office setup stipend, $50 monthly commuter benefit, expensed office lunches, and a company-provided laptop.
- Covered gym membership or remote fitness reimbursement.
- Monthly utility stipend and professional development, recreation, and pet care stipends.
- Company offsites throughout the year.