Senior AI Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $148.8k - $201.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

Defense Unicorns is a cutting-edge technology company focused on transforming the way the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) procures and deploys mission-critical software capabilities. Through its Airgap App Store and Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), Defense Unicorns offers a centralized marketplace of trusted, pre-approved applications designed for rapid, secure, and compliant deployments in the most secure and complex DoD environments. The company emphasizes speed and reliability in software delivery, catering to various missions across domains such as Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force. Defense Unicorns meets the unique challenges of DevSecOps for defense systems, ensuring operational adaptability and security in mission-critical software deployments.

📋 Description

• Build AI-driven workflows that help users create, package, validate, and maintain mission applications • Develop agent orchestration capabilities combining AI reasoning with deterministic tooling, validation, and human oversight • Create secure, isolated development environments for executing AI agents and building software • Integrate UDS packaging, Kubernetes, and software delivery tooling into automated development workflows • Build systems managing persistent application state, development workflows, and asynchronous execution • Develop automated testing and validation capabilities for secure, deployable software and UDS packages • Own the design, implementation, testing, and delivery of complex software features and systems • Drive technical decisions and contribute to architecture across product components • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, UX, and Mission Heroes • Debug issues across Kubernetes, virtualization, storage, networking, and operating systems • Improve software reliability, security, performance, observability, and maintainability • Review code, mentor teammates, document technical decisions, and establish engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong proficiency in a modern programming language; Go and TypeScript preferred • Experience designing, building, and operating production software products • Experience integrating LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered capabilities into software applications • Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and application architecture • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native application development • Experience building reliable, testable systems with automated validation and CI/CD pipelines • Ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and independently deliver complex solutions • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills • Travel expectations/requirements: 0–5%

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision • Premiums are 100% Company Paid • Health Savings Account • Life Insurance • Disability Insurance • 401k Retirement Plan • Company Stock Options • Home Office Budget • Flexible Time Off (FTO) • Federal Holidays • One week for Thanksgiving • Two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)