[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation) @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation) at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

As a Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation), the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the United States Postal Service through the application of agentic AI to the software development lifecycle.

• Work in a unique environment and stack, offering challenging problems and interesting opportunities.
• Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination.
• Help identify system bottlenecks or flaws in business logic and work with the team to address them.
• Take ownership over product problems, develop solutions you're proud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact.
• Work across the stack to solve problems -- there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively within your team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on AI software development experience.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering impactful, production-ready software solutions of varying complexity.
• Experience designing and implementing components of distributed systems (multi-tier architectures) including storage layers, caching layers, and application layers.
• Working experience with microservice architectures, with exposure to high-throughput systems.
• Familiarity with system transformation patterns and ability to contribute to modernization efforts.
• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Solid understanding of cloud engineering paradigms, asynchronous systems, and service integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of design patterns, reliability, and scaling principles.
• Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and system design.
• Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and their solutions.
• Quality driven, owns their output from communication, to code, to documentation.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to teammates and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring peers or junior developers.
• Willingness to advocate for sound engineering practices within your team.
• Track record of learning and adapting to new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance productivity and engineering outcomes.
• Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to venture into new problem domains.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.