Software Engineer

Overview

BigBear.ai is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team. We are looking for a self-starter with software engineering experience who enjoys working within a team to solve complex problems and develop cutting-edge products across the BigBear.ai portfolio. Work based in Reston, VA and may offer remote flexibility for local candidates.

At BigBear.ai, we believe developing and furthering AI/ML can help make the world a better place. We enjoy the challenges of our work and know our people are the most important part of our success. Here you can expect an environment of mutual trust, respect, and development, with an emphasis on opportunity, recognition, and work-life balance. We give the same high level of commitment to our people that we do our clients.

What you will do

1. Collaborate effectively as part of cross-functional engineering team and clearly communicate with stakeholders through virtual/in-person technical exchange meetings, planning sessions, and technical demonstrations.
2. Contribute to a full-stack geospatial application that uses AI/ML to enhance findings.
3. Contribute to program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
4. Analyze, design, implement, integrate, and test multiple applications.
5. Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation.
6. Estimate software development schedule within an Agile environment.
7. Formulate and define specifications for software applications or modify and maintain existing applications using engineering releases and utilities.

What you need to have

1. US Citizenship with a TS/SCI clearance.
2. Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Science, with 4+ years of experience or 8+ years of experience in private or government environments in software engineering / systems development in place of education.
3. Experience in Python, TypeScript, and React.
4. Experience or familiarity with developing containerized software applications.
5. Experience in or familiarity with DevOps or DevSecOps as well as CI/CD pipelines.
6. Broad knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
7. Experience working in an Agile team environment.
8. Experience with collaboration, development tracking, and version control systems such as Confluence, Jira, and Git.

What we'd like you to have

1. Experience with container runtime environments such as Docker and container-orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
2. Design and development in Relational (PostgreSQL), Document Oriented (Elasticsearch), and Graph (Neo4j) databases.
3. Experience developing within a Linux environment.

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on BigBear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.