Software Engineer Federal
Factory is an AI software-development platform that lets enterprises plan, build, review, test, and ship software with governed autonomous agents (“Droids”).
About Factory
Factory provides a model-independent, enterprise software-development system spanning the SDLC, with deployment options including managed, private, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, develop, and deploy AI-driven agentic systems for federal missions. You will harden platform deployments for secure, classified, and air-gapped environments, embed security and compliance controls, work directly with government customers, and deliver integrations from prototype through production.
Requirements
- 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience after completing a Bachelor's or Master's degree
- Proficiency with LLMs and applying AI/ML techniques to complex unstructured problems
- Ability to navigate ambiguous projects from conception through deployment
- Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical government stakeholders
- Ability to work directly with customers, including on-site time
- Experience deploying software in regulated or secure environments is desirable
- Familiarity with government procurement, compliance, and the ATO process is a plus
- Experience with data-intensive applications and the software development lifecycle is desirable
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven agentic systems for federal missions
- Deploy and harden the platform in secure government environments, including GovCloud, on-premises, classified, and air-gapped networks
- Build security, compliance, guardrails, observability, and explainability into agent systems
- Engage directly with federal customers to define requirements and deliver production deployments
- Integrate the platform with source control, CI/CD, ticketing systems, and DoD software factories
- Prototype and refine AI functionality based on real-world feedback
- Address platform stability and scalability challenges
- Apply large-scale data processing techniques to improve AI reliability and effectiveness
- Bring federal customer insights into the core platform
- Contribute to technical proposals, capture strategy, and the public-sector product roadmap