Application Developer - Expert (AI/ML)

Location: Onsite customer role in Sterling, VA; the description also identifies Herndon, VA as the work location.

Salary: $99,000–$206,000 annually, based on qualifications, experience, and expertise.

Company

hirify.global provides cybersecurity, data operations, systems integration, intelligence mission support, software modernization, and related services for intelligence, defense, civil, and commercial customers.

What you will do

• Integrate AI/ML technology into production web applications and build new web services for enterprise and data-centric mission management.
• Design, develop, unit test, demonstrate, and maintain production applications and rapid prototypes using iterative Agile practices.
• Meet with stakeholders, analyze requirements, create user stories, and translate requirements into development tasks.
• Collaborate with software developers, ETL developers, data scientists, users, and leadership.
• Prepare technical documentation, application workflow and integration documentation, compliance procedures, briefings, and status-review materials.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a relevant field, plus at least six years of experience; a master’s degree counts as two additional years of relevant experience.
• TS/SCI with Polygraph is required on Day 1.
• 8–10 years of experience building web applications and UX/UI frameworks with Angular, React, or JavaScript, with specific examples.
• 6–8 years of Linux experience and 6–8 years of experience with microservices, including Docker, Podman, or other containerization services.
• 4–6 years deploying applications in the Commercial Cloud Services environment or AWS; 4–6 years with Azure, Oracle, Google, or other cloud technologies may substitute for C2S.
• 2–3 years of experience with search and analytics tools such as Elasticsearch, Solr, or OpenSearch, and 2–3 years performing ETL on large structured and unstructured raw datasets.
• 2–4 years designing, developing, testing, and implementing applications from project requirements.
• 4–6 years of object-oriented programming; Python is preferred, with Java, JavaScript, C#, or SQL also considered.
• Experience working independently and in project teams, decomposing concepts into development tasks, and managing work to deadlines; Agile experience must include Scrum or Kanban, with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.

Nice to have

• Experience with text analytics for business intelligence or business analytics, including search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, or document categorization.
• Experience developing proofs of concept and evaluating machine-learning algorithms for text analytics.
• Experience with PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, Tableau, Pandas, D3, ggplot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, spaCy, NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, or Gensim.
• Experience with the Java Spring framework.

Culture & Benefits

• Iterative Agile development with input from stakeholders at all levels and a regular production cadence.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k), paid time off, holidays, and additional insurance coverage.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employment environment.