Senior Software Engineer; AI & Automation

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

Other

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Emerging Technologies, Software Projects, Software Solutions

Certifications:

None

Experience:

4 + years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

No

Job Description:

Transform technology into opportunity as a Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation) pe what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

As a Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation), the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the United States Postal Service through the application of agentic AI to the software development lifecycle.

• Work in aunique environment and stack, offering challenging problems and interesting opportunities
• Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
• Helpidentifysystem bottlenecks or flaws in business logic and work with the team to address them
• Take ownership over product problems, develop solutions you’reproud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact
• Work across the stack to solve problems – there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively within your team

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• 4+ years of hands‑on AI software development experience

• Demonstrated track recordof delivering impactful, production ready,software solutions of varying complexity
• Experience designing and implementing components of distributed systems (multi-tier architectures) including storage layers, caching layers, and application layers
• Working experience with microservice architectures, with exposure to high-throughput systems
• Familiarity with system transformation patterns and ability to contribute to modernization efforts

• Strongproficiencyin Java
• Solid understanding of cloud engineering paradigms, asynchronous systems, and service integration patterns
• Working knowledge of design patterns, reliability, and scaling principles
• Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and system design

• Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problemsandtheir solutions
• Quality driven, owns their output from communication, to code, to documentation
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to teammates and stakeholders
• Experience mentoring peers or junior developers
• Willingness to advocate for sound engineering practices within your team

• Track record of learning and adapting tonew technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
• Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance productivity and engineering outcomes
• Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to venture into new problem domains

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they…