[Hiring] Cloud Native Software Engineer SME @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Support mission-critical initiatives and enable the growth of our business as a Senior AI-assisted / Cloud-Native Software Engineer SME at GDIT. Here, you’ll become an integral part of how GDIT is able to ensure the safety and security of our nation.

• Serve as a senior engineering leader responsible for building and scaling our AI‑Assisted Software Development capability driving Mission Software growth and delivery excellence.
• Establish the strategy, operating model, practices, and technical foundations required to transform how our teams design, build, test, and deliver software solutions and products using modern AI-enabled development approaches.
• Drive the technical solutions needed to win complex, large-scale, and strategic pursuits as well as extend our existing Mission Software portfolio.
• Evaluate and rationalize existing AI-enabled tools and platforms across the organization, becoming the internal expert on their use and integration.
• Define best practices, upskill our engineers, and operationalize AI‑assisted development as an enterprise capability.
• Architect, engineer, and demonstrate innovative proof of concept solutions that solve key customer challenges.
• Blend technical leadership, solution architecture, go-to-market, organizational change management, and hands-on engineering expertise.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of progressive software architecture and engineering experience.
• Proven experience developing mission software products and capability development.
• Must be a US Person (needed to access sensitive GDIT enterprise systems).

Requirements

• Strong understanding of AI-enabled development workflows.
• Ability to assess organizational AI-development maturity and define roadmaps, capability models, and adoption strategies.
• Direct experience evaluating, selecting, and operationalizing AI-enabled development tools.
• Hands-on experience using LLM-based frameworks and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Ability to rapidly architect, engineer, and demonstrate customer proof of concept solutions.
• Experience creating developer education programs, playbooks, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical vision, architecture standards, and execution across complex, multi-team programs.
• Full-Stack development experience including proficiency across multiple programming languages.
• Experience implementing and integrating solutions across a variety of operating systems and Platforms as a Service.
• Deep experience with API/webservice design, secure coding standards, and scalable architectural patterns.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and critical illness insurance.