Altamira delivers a variety of analytic and engineering capabilities to the US National Security community, but the tech culture and the caliber of the individuals that bring these capabilities to fruition are what really set us apart. Our Dayton, OH office is highly focused on the Space-based mission set with a heavy emphasis on sensor exploitation and analysis; Tampa, FL focuses on ‘art-of-the-possible’ analytics of all kinds with an emphasis on graph technologies, NLP, and wrangling complex data sets; and all forces converge at our headquarters in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area where we host our tech events and support engineering and analytic missions across several IC and DOD agencies.

While our work occurs in different states and different mission domains, we’ve got analytics at the heart of every operation and genuine curiosity for new methods, techniques, and solutions. Our specialties are data science and analytics, data engineering, software engineering, and end-to-end analytic solutions architecture. We’ve also got some awesome benefits like the Altamira Healthy Living program, with ongoing competitions and a flexible spending stipend for health and wellness-related items.

Location(s): Washington DC

The Role:

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.

• Maintains the existing code base of in-production applications, performing bug fixes, updates
  
  

of code and component libraries to meet security and performance needs as required, and

capability enhancements as planned in the sprint schedule.

• 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/subcomponents.

• 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.

• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance
  
  

standards.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree plus 5-7 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 3 years of experience.

Required Skills/Experience:

Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at least one more programming

language (Java is preferred).

• 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, tools, and providing leadership
  
  

to other developers operating within an Agile framework.

• DevSecOps experience including the use of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
  
  

(CI/CD) Tooling (Git runners, code scanning tools)

• Experience with containerization and use of Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Object Relational Modeling persistence frameworks (e.g. SQLAlchemy), and
  
  

with PostgreSQL

• Familiarity with the use of ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, and Neo4J as persistent stores
• 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.

• DoDD 8140 IAT Level III is preferred
• Possess a minimum of an active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive
  
  

Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility