Expert Software Engineer (Research & ML Model Development)Location: Annapolis Junction, MD Compensation Range: $250 – $270K Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to applyCompany Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.
Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.Benefits Overview: Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans Generous PTO Policy 401(k) HSA and FSA options Life and Disability Insurance Tuition Reimbursement and Training Perks at Work Discount Program Referral Program Leads Generation Program CollegeAmerica 529 Fitness Reimbursement Program Travel Assistance Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions Life Planning Financial & Legal ServicesPosition Description: The Software Engineer shall develop, enhance, and prototype compliance and business processing analytics and tools. Develop new methods for automating compliance functions and improve existing methods.
Contractor will investigate, integrate, and test compliance modernization Machine Learning/AI algorithms and research proof-of-concepts in the RD environment. They will develop models and implement appropriate metrics and monitoring of developed tools, functions, and data flows.Qualifications: Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.Position Required Skills:Experience with Java, Scala, and PythonExperience with Lucene, JEXL, SQL, JSONRandom Forest and ability to do feature development for Random ForestExperience with Machine Learning Model building and monitoringExperience developing in a Linux operating environmentExperience with Ghostmachine (Map/Reduce)Experience with GM LearnExperience with Jupyter NotebooksExperience with IntelliJ and/or EclipseExperience with Git/Gitlab and/or Stash/BitbucketExperience with JiraExperience with ConfluenceExperience with Scikit-learnAgency Compliance standards, policies, and authoritiesExperience with Agency corporate systemsExperience with documentation and reviewing documentationPosition Desired Skills:Data Science skills/backgroundExperience with AWSExperience implementing ML systemsExperience with SparkExploratory Data Analysis (EDA)Agentic AILarge Language Models (LLM)Machine Learning Feature DevelopmentOther Machine Learning models and techniques