Full Stack Software Engineer

Barbaricum is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer -AI/ML Model Development to contribute to the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) mission. CDAO is responsible for the acceleration of the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to generate decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. CDAO is tasked with building a strong foundation for data, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to be developed and fielded at scale. This position directly supports CDAO’s Chief Technology Officer and will play a key role in advancing CDAO’s AI/ML and data-driven initiatives

Barbaricum has been supporting CDAO for more than 3 years, including current support to the T&E Directorate and Resource and Management Office. This position is a new role on a team that will provide SETA support to the CDAO CTO.

Responsibilities

• Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence based support capabilities including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
• Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process.
• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
• Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities, including Generative AI.
• Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable AI solutions.
• Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors.
• Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.
• Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
• Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
• Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies. Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret Clearance Required.
• Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and preferably one more programming language (Java is a plus).
• Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools.
• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services as well as front-end frameworks.
• Strong communications skills; you will be required to proactively engage fellow CDAO members both inside and outside of your team.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• DevSecOps experience a big plus.
• DODD 8140 IAT Level III is required for this position.
• Bachelors Degree plus 7-10 years experience or a Masters Degree plus 5 years of experience.