Expert Software Engineer

Your Impact :

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. Amentum is seeking an Expert Software Engineer to join our team of passionate individuals in Springfield, VA. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation's security and intelligence mission.

The Geospatial Enterprise Open Data Store (GEODS) contract provides integration, design, development, and sustainment for data services in support of the Federal Government.

This Expert Software Developer will serve as the primary technical SME for AI capabilities supporting the GEODS Data Catalog, focusing on automated metadata enrichment, semantic similarity search, vector indexing, entity extraction, and large-scale inference across heterogeneous geospatial datasets.

Developers on GEODS routinely design and implement new custom features that solve unique problems, optimize legacy capabilities, and deliver enterprise-level data services. In this role, you will directly shape the evolution of the GEODS Catalog ecosystem and drive integration of advanced AI / ML solutions to enhance discovery, classification, and accessibility of mission-critical data.

Responsibilities :

As a GEODS Expert Software Engineer, you will serve as a subject matter expert and mentor to other developers, advancing the vision and execution of the GEODS program by completing the following tasks :

• Lead the design and development of AI / ML features supporting metadata enrichment, entity extraction, content classification, and semantic match
• Develop and integrate vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and ML inference components into GEODS catalog services
• Contribute to all phases of the software development life cycle
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient, and maintainable code
• Ensure designs follow specifications approved by customer
• Contribute to planning and prioritization of work for future Program Increments
• Recommend changes to improve established application and organizational processes
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support formal testing and resolution of defects
• Provide technical support and consultation for application and infrastructure defects and questions
• Provide SME-level guidance to junior / mid-level developers, including technical reviews and mentoring
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, Architects, and Product Management on catalog roadmap items

Requirements :

o Embedding models (sentence-transformers, Titan, SageMaker JumpStart models)

o RAG pipelines

o Vector stores (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Pinecone-like services)

o Metadata extraction and NLP pipelines

o Batch / stream interface

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