Software Engineer; ML Systems & Productization

Software Engineer (ML Systems & Productization)

Founded in Santa Barbara in 2003, AIMdyn, Inc. is a woman-owned small business developing predictive modeling systems for large-scale complex engineering, natural science and social science problems. We are a government contractor working with DARPA, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, among other government, commercial, and academic customers. Visit us at  to learn more.

• AIMdyn builds advanced analytics and decision-support software for complex, data-driven environments. This role focuses on transforming research prototypes into reliable, testable, deployable software.

• Design, build, and maintain production-quality software that supports data-driven analytics and model-based decision support.
• Develop modular services and tooling to enable repeatable workflows (data ingestion, validation, model execution, and reporting).
• Implement robust engineering practices: automated testing, code review, documentation, and performance monitoring.
• Build and maintain automated pipelines for build, test, and release (continuous integration and delivery).
• Package and deploy software using containers; improve reliability and portability across multiple Linux-based environments.
• Collaborate with research-focused engineers and software architecture to translate requirements into working software.

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience (or equivalent) delivering production-grade systems.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and running software across Linux-based environments.
• Hands-on Docker experience and container-based delivery workflows.
• Experience setting up and maintaining automated build/test pipelines.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines (structured data formats, schema validation, data versioning).
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures, concurrency, resource management, distributed error handling, and common failure modes.
• Clear written communication and comfort working in an R&D environment with evolving requirements.

• Experience building service APIs and defining stable interface contracts.
• Familiarity with performance profiling and scaling of batch workloads.

• Strong proficiency in Python and Rust for production-quality development..
• Proficiency in at least one JVM language (Java, Scala, or Kotlin) for building scalable services and/or batch processing workflows.

• Proficiency with Git.
• Familiarity with Jira

• Salaried $108,906 to $112,174

U.S. Location only - work abroad NOT permitted due to contract restrictions. Remote work may be authorized. U.S. Citizenship is required due to the requirements of some government projects (

NOTE:

this is not a general company policy or requirement).