Software Project Lead

🕒 July 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Defcon AI

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚗 Transport

📦 Logistics

Artificial Intelligence • Transport • Logistics

Defcon AI is a company focused on transforming logistics and supply chain operations using AI-driven technologies. The company addresses disruptions caused by natural disasters, unanticipated events, and opponents through sophisticated software modeling and intelligent agents. Defcon AI aims to integrate next-generation technologies within logistics and decision-making processes to improve response planning in complex and contested environments. Positioned at the convergence of AI, mobility, and logistics, Defcon AI collaborates with partners to provide efficient, reliable, and data-driven solutions tailored to specific needs. The company is committed to enhancing resilience and efficiency in the logistics sector.

📋 Description

• This is a rare opportunity to be the software champion for a mission-critical DoW effort, owning it end to end from the customer's problem to working, deployed software. • As a Software Project Lead, you will own the software design, architecture, and delivery for a dedicated program. • Your job is to coordinate the work and turn it into shipped software, building from an existing starting point toward a durable, deployable system. • The work spans both modern commercial engineering practices and the realities of DoW delivery, with unclassified development that moves to a government classified environment to meet real data.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building and shipping production software, including at least one system owned end to end as the senior technical voice accountable for it, not just a component. • Front-end and data visualization engineering (e.g. React/TypeScript or equivalent): the deliverable is a data-visualization product, so you can architect and personally build its core surfaces. • A working lead, not just a director: this is a small team without other software depth early, so you write and review code directly while leading the developers on the effort. • Unclassified-to-secure delivery: building software in the open so it runs unchanged in a government secure or air-gapped environment, owning the data and schema contract, and driving the transfer. Sensible CI/CD hygiene expected; deep RMF and ATO ownership is a plus, not a requirement. • Requirements and architecture instincts: you can sit with a customer who does not speak software, pull out what they need, and turn it into a design and a plan. • Partnering with an optimization scientist: conversant enough in the analytic core (optimization, dependency management, critical-path analysis) to define the contracts between engine and UI and pressure-test feasibility, without owning the models yourself. • Leading small teams and coordinating across roles (PM, SMEs, data scientists, operations research and analytics, security), customer-facing in a government setting. • US Citizenship Required • Active Secret Clearance • Willingness to Travel up to 25% to customer site, Defcon AI HQ, and vendor facilities as required.

🏖️ Benefits

• A fully remote, results-based environment • Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family • Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval • Flexible work environment where you manage your work day • 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave