Principal Software Engineer – AI & Software Factory Engineering

Clearance Level None Category Software Engineering Location Remote, Working from the USA

Key Skills For Success Containerization Software

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes Orchestration

Software Delivery

##### REQ#:RQ225967

##### Public Trust:None

##### Requisition Type:Regular

##### Your Impact

Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.

Job Description

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Principal Software Engineer – AI & Software Factory Engineering

We're looking for a software engineer who likes building platform products — the tooling, automation, and AI capabilities other engineering teams build on top of. You'll write production code daily on a small, senior team delivering software factories, security automation, and AI-enabled development environments for Department of War and Federal customers. If your instinct when you see a manual process is to write code that eliminates it, this role is built for you.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

You'll work across multiple concurrent R&D and customer delivery efforts rather than a single narrow program, with the option to engage in proposals and customer demos if you want to build business acumen alongside technical depth

• Build agentic AI capabilities — tool orchestration, LLM application development, and workflow automation — using AI-assisted development daily
• Develop software that automates continuous Authority to Operate (cATO): evidence collection, compliance reporting, and policy-as-code enforcement
• Build secure-by-default CI/CD pipeline products — hardening templates, integrated security scanning (SAST, SCA, container, SBOM), and supply chain controls (signing, provenance, attestation) — that development teams across our portfolio consume
• Extend the platform with self-service capabilities: developer onboarding