DevOps Software Developer

Job Summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high‑resolution surveillance systems.

• Sys Admin role which is responsible for ensuring the autonomy group's IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and software, operates securely and efficiently.
• Determine user requirements and specifications and plan for software development within the broader organizational scope.
• Design data pipelines and engineering infrastructure to support enterprise level operationalization.
• Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to product ionize models for air‑to‑air and air‑to‑ground combat operations.
• Develop and deploy scalable tools and services for rapid training and inference at the edge.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies to improve performance, maintainability, and reliability of systems.
• Apply robust software engineering best practices to ecosystem, including CI/CD, automation, etc.
• Support stable and repeatable model development, with an emphasis on traceability, version control, adversarial robustness and data security.
• Help develop and deploy proof‑of‑concept machine learning systems to the warfighter.
• Communicate with stakeholders to develop roadmaps and implementation schedules.
• Perform other duties as assigned or required.

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related discipline and two or more years of progressive software development experience with a bachelor’s degree. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Must understand machine learning development concepts, principles, and theory and demonstrate complete understanding of model development and analysis concepts.
• Experience building end‑to‑end systems focused on product ionizing AI/ML technology in a distributed computing environment.
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Ability to organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases and, determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level and to provide solutions to a range of complex problems.
• Must have strong communication, computer, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team; and lead a team of less experienced professional employees on semi‑routine tasks.
• Experience using/configuring/maintaining the following technologies:
  • Source code and data control repositories (GIT, SVN, MLFlow, DVC, S3, etc.)
  • Continuous Integration Environment (Jenkins, Gitlab, etc.)
  • Linux and associated technologies (Red Hat based)
  • Provisioning tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
  • Package managers and associated tools (RPMs, Yum, Pypi, pip, Artifactory, etc.)
  • Hypervisors (VMWare, Virtual Box, QEMU, etc.), containers (Docker, Podman, etc.), and related tools (Vagrant, Packer, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Web servers and associated tools (Apache, NGINX, etc.)
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Desktop as a Service (DAAS), “golden image” creation, and related virtualization technologies
  • Cloud computing infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.)
  • CI/CD pipelines and orchestration of distributed AI/ML compute
• Software process automation with popular scripting languages (Python, Bash, Powershell, Ansible).
• Experience developing code in at least one high‑level programming language (C#, C, Python, and/or Java).
• Experience developing machine learning models using scikit‑learn, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.
• Ability to understand tools used by data scientists and experience with automation of these processes.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance is required.

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

Job Type: Full-Time Hourly

Salary range: 87,