AI Software Engineer - Mid Level
General Dynamics Mission Systems
Scottsdale, AZ
Information Technology, Engineering
Basic Qualifications
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.
Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities For This Position
What You'll Do:
This position allows you to be either fully remote/telework, fully on-site, OR Hybrid/Flex at one of several facilities.
Interviews:
We do not allow the use of AI during any step of the interview process.
Target salary range: USD $124,397.00/Yr. - USD $138,003.00/Yr. This estimate represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors (geographic location, etc.). Actual pay may vary. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Company Overview
General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.
Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities For This Position
What You'll Do:
- Conduct code reviews across the platform codebase. You will review pull requests thoroughly, provide clear and constructive feedback, and help maintain code quality standards.
- Build and maintain integrations with enterprise systems including SharePoint (via Microsoft Graph API), GitLab, EPDM, and internal Hub services.
- Develop and maintain LLM API integrations across multiple providers.
- Build and maintain RAG pipelines: document ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding generation, vector database storage, and retrieval.
- Develop backend APIs in Python, including asynchronous request handling and background job processing.
- Contribute to agent framework development.
- Implement and maintain authentication and authorization flows.
- Troubleshoot and fix production issues.
- Collaborate with team on deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure needs.
- Mentor junior engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Expert Python skills — you need to be an expert writing, reading, and reviewing Python.
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Working experience with at least one major LLM API — token management, streaming responses, prompt construction, error handling
- Understanding of RAG patterns — embeddings, vector databases, document chunking and retrieval
- Experience with async programming or task queue systems
- Proficiency with Git and Docker usage
- Demonstrated ability to conduct thorough, constructive code reviews
- Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation
- Azure cloud experience
- SharePoint or Microsoft Graph API integration experience
- Kubernetes awareness
- PostgreSQL
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar)
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector, or similar)
- An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development
- Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule)
- Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more
- See more at gdmissionsystems.com/careers/why-work-for-us/benefits
This position allows you to be either fully remote/telework, fully on-site, OR Hybrid/Flex at one of several facilities.
Interviews:
We do not allow the use of AI during any step of the interview process.
Target salary range: USD $124,397.00/Yr. - USD $138,003.00/Yr. This estimate represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors (geographic location, etc.). Actual pay may vary. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Company Overview
General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
About the company
Company website•Defense and Space Manufacturing
At General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, we develop mission critical C4ISR solutions across the land, sea, air, space and cyber domains, but that doesn’t tell our whole story.
When downed pilots are isolated in enemy territory, our equipment gives them a lifeline to call home. When a student opens a textbook to learn about the universe, they’re looking at data and pictures sent using our technology. When the government needs to share crucial top-secret information, our products help them keep this information out of the wrong hands. When sailors need to locate underwater mines, our technology allows them to find explosives with unmanned underwater vehicles.
Delivering C4ISR technology is what we do but we think why we do it is more important.