Software Developer

Job ID: 2407313 Location: , VA, US Date Posted: 2024-05-23 Category: Software Subcategory:

SW Engineer Schedule: Full-time Shift: Day Job Travel:

Yes, 10 % of the Time Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Potential for Remote Work:

No Description INTRODUCTION: The Customer has an environment dedicated to tradecraft innovation and is a unique addition to the Intelligence Community (IC). This office incorporates new and emerging commercial technologies, along with tailored and specific technical and analytic capabilities in order to achieve its core mission. Partnerships with tradecraft schools and mission elements drive discovery and definition of projects suitable to Customer’s capabilities.

The Customer provides an environment for concept incubation, prototype evaluation, and pilot execution in the effort to advance technical intelligence, tradecraft, capabilities, and techniques. The efficiencies gained by collocating technical tradecraft capabilities with new employee training and development provides a comprehensive perspective of exactly what new employees may encounter when they go to the field. SCOPE: a.

Blank Slate Development: Based on Customer provided requirements, the Contractor, when applicable, shall employ blank slate development for all elements of a new tool and avoid code reuse with respect to any previous tools developed by the Customer, or the greater IC. Diversity validation will be conducted at the Customer’s discretion and may produce specific enhancement requests. b.

Proof-of-Concept Productization: Based on Customer direction, the Contractor shall productize previously developed or Customer provided proof-of-concept capabilities into tools that satisfy operational requirements. c. Tool Repurposing:

Based on Customer direction, the Contractor shall identify open-source capabilities, or characterize Customer provided tools, that support operational requirements. The Contractor shall determine the modifications needed for a tool to be viable for operational use and conduct development of a repurposed capability to be delivered to the Customer. As directed by Customer, the Contractor shall ensure the development, deployment, implementation, operation, and support of Customer technical information systems and projects complies with security policies and procedures.

The Contractor shall be required to communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams. The Contractor shall be required to work with Customer staff and contractor personnel, as well as external stakeholders. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Contractor team ensures that all developed applications and modifications to existing Customer applications operate in compliance with applicable documents. Compliance standards could include security accreditation, program management control gates, integration with external services (e.g., access control, auditing), patching and maintaining current versions of software, outage reporting, accessibility requirements, internal-use software reporting, auditing, logging, solution reconstitution testing, and technical directives. Planned activities shall be coordinated with all stakeholders and approved by the Customer. a.

The Contractor Team shall, within an Open-source Environment utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML), develop the ability to correlate data from various sources to create real time pattern of life predictability. b.

The Contractor Team shall support ongoing development on tools to gather data from various COTS sensor-based sources and develop systems to return data to Customer. c. The Contractor Team shall support transitioning developed tools and systems to Customer’s Enterprise system. d.

The Contractor Team shall follow policy requirements related to application retooling and development. e.

The Contractor Team shall support tool implementation on Customer’s Enterprise system. f. The Contractor Team shall modify applications to meet compliance with the Customer’s architectural and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) process. g.

The Contractor Team shall develop tools to enable technology starting from various initial maturity levels. h.

The Contractor Team shall develop and support scalable and secure functionality into software applications. i. The Contractor Team shall study how to use Machine Learning to simulate human learning activities, to improve their performance by data analyzing without following the instructions of the program. j.

The Contractor Team shall develop data framework for data analysis to support end-user data discovery and data correlation. k.

The Contractor Team shall design, setup and perform technical demonstrations. l. The Contractor Team shall incorporate multiple technologies for novel solutions. m.

The Contractor Team shall enact ad-hoc technical experiments to test tradecraft concepts. Software Development (1 FTE) a.

The Contractor shall design, develop, and maintain applications; includes new applications development, modifications of existing applications, transition of legacy applications to new technologies. b.

The Contractor shall analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost restraints. c. The Contractor shall ensure the proper configuration and change management procedures are followed. d.

The Contractor shall confer with other information technology professionals (systems analysts, engineers, etc.) to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. e.

The Contractor shall provide for Tier 1-4 assistance. f. The Contractor shall consult with customers about software system design, user interface preferences and maintenance. g.

The Contractor shall design and develop database management systems, image processing, collaborative tools, data manipulation techniques, data visualization techniques, interface with access control services. h.

The Contractor shall design and develop tools for operating system platforms. i. The Contractor shall design and develop tools that integrate with commercial applications. j.

The Contractor shall design, develop, and modify software systems and measure outcome and consequence of design. k.

The Contractor shall develop and execute unit and functional test plans. l. The Contractor shall develop and execute software system testing and validation procedures and programming. m.

The Contractor shall document test results. n.

The Contractor shall modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance. o. The Contractor shall perform or direct revision, repair, or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements. p. The Contractor shall prepare appropriate configuration and change management documentation that provides the detailed workflow and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operation. q.

The Contractor shall provide database architectural and design capabilities. r. The Contractor shall provide operations and maintenance of operational systems. s. The Contractor shall provide or contribute end user instructions or manuals.

CORE COMPETENCIES: Software Development - Develop tools to enable technology starting from various initial maturity levels. Qualifications Required Skills: 1.

Demonstrated experience implementing Docker containers and Vagrant environments to ship and deploy software packages. 2. Demonstrated experience working in JavaScript and Python. 3. Demonstrated experience working with Python AI/ML. 4.

Demonstrated experience working with scikit-learn, tensorflow, or pytorch. 5. Demonstrated experience working with Software Defined Radios (SDR) and related software such as KISMET, GNURadio, or rtl_433. 6. Demonstrated experience working with opensource video analytic and CCTV tools (such as OpenMPF, Shinobi, MotionEye, or ffmpeg). 7.

Demonstrated experience with Vue.js. 8. Demonstrated experience with Spark. 9. Demonstrated experience with NiFi. 10.

Demonstrated experience designing, setting up and performing technical demonstrations. 11.

Demonstrated experience developing ad-hoc technical experiments to test tradecraft concepts. Desired Skills: 1.

Demonstrated experience working in, Java EE, C#, SQL. 2. Demonstrated experience with Node.JS. 3. Demonstrated experience with cloud services. 4.

Demonstrated experience with Android SDK. 5. Demonstrated experience in cellular network operations. 6. Demonstrated experience with VMware or equivalent. 7.

Demonstrated experience working with OpenCV. 8. Demonstrated experience working with JavaScript UI libraries 9. Demonstrated experience working with ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, and x86, x64 architectures & assembly. 10.

Demonstrated experience working with Java, VHDL and Verilog. 11.

Demonstrated experience developing and writing code for soho/mobile devices. 12. Demonstrated experience understanding design and programming for systems integration of complex systems. 13.

Demonstrated experience with video processing pipelines (FFMPEG). 14. Proficiency or certifications in at least 2 (two) of the following: Linux; Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1, SUSE Certified Linux Administrator, Security, Elastic Search, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, Wireshark, Snort. 15.

Demonstrated experience or understanding of cellular network operations/exploitation. 16. Demonstrated experience or understanding of vehicle systems telematics. 17.

Demonstrated experience with VMware or equivalent. 18.

Demonstrated experience or understanding with Python AI/ML. 19. Demonstrated experience or understanding with OpenCV. 20. Demonstrated experience with scikit-learn, tensorflow, or pytorch. 21.

Demonstrated experience or understanding with Software Defined Radios (SDR) and related software (KISMET, GNURadio, rtl_433). 22. Demonstrated experience with JavaScript UI libraries such as vuetify, leaflet and pixi.js. 23. Demonstrated experience with opensource video analytic and CCTV tools (i.e.

OpenMPF, Shinobi, MotionEye, and/or ffmpeg). 24.

Demonstrated experience with ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, and x86, x64 architectures & assembly. 25. Demonstrated experience developing and writing code for soho/mobile devices. 26.

Demonstrated experience understanding the design and programming for systems integration of complex systems. 27.

Demonstrated experience implementing ICD directives. 28. Demonstrated experience documenting networks and diagraming networks. 29.

Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s network and security requirements for Approval to Develop (ATD) and Authority to Operate (ATO). 30. Demonstrated experience or knowledge of using JIRA and Confluence for tracking and managing project progress. 31.

Demonstrated experience building production grade applications on relational and unstructured streaming data. 32.

Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Professional), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) 33. Experience being responsible for developing and maintaining an cloud-based environment that contains data of the highest sensitivity. 34. Experience primarily working independently as the single point of failure for all systems administration work on the environment. 35.

Experience performing security assessments to identify and correct weaknesses or deficiencies within the information system and its environment of operation. 36. Experience being directly involved in processing all customer efforts through the various facets of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Assessment & Authorization (A&A) processes. 37. Experience performing system configuration and patch management on live critical systems. 38.

Experience implementing corrective actions to address identified vulnerabilities, negotiate and coordinate with the program on an acceptable mitigation plan, and then verifying those mitigations were effectively implemented. 39. Experience acting as a point of contact (POC) with department personnel and performing requirements gathering and application design to support operational facing customer needs in an Agile methodology. SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

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