Description
Clarity Innovations connects human creativity with emerging technology to design, develop, and deploy software that enhances mission success. Our focus is redefining the Government’s relationship with technology by encouraging the use of DevSecOps and Agile methodologies, small-teams constructs, modern tech stacks, and automation. Our software improves the lives and work of our end users and enhances innovation. We fulfill our responsibility to our country by delivering mission-changing results that help shape a better and safer world.
Description:
The CNO Discovery Analytics Team (DAT) is branching out to US Cyber Command! This is a totally new adventure for our team. You will work directly with CNMF operators and analysts to learn their mission. You will work directly with our six existing DATs to learn the ropes, get a feel for existing solutions, and be indoctrinated to our mission-focused, fast-paced culture. You will work directly with our AI/ML team to get up-to-speed on their infrastructure, analytics platform, LLM and RAG offerings, and analytics capabilities. Finally, use your stellar development skills to mix and match and create some new things of your own to have maximum impact and make an EXCELLENT first impression.
Responsibilities:
- Respond to software shortcomings reported by users of existing applications. Watch people use your tool, notice what could be better, and fix it without them asking!
- Gather requirements and rapidly develop new prototype tools/solutions that help customers do their jobs more efficiently.
- Start with vague requirements, identify and iterate with SMEs to build something special.
- Understand the CNMF mission, collaborate with team members, gather user requirements, and automate workflows.
- Identify opportunities to leverage existing DAT and AIMASSIST capabilities for our new customer, successfully communicate with and integrate with those teams to apply them to this new mission. Implement features effectively across multiple code bases.
- Establish customer rapport, communication cadence, means of prioritization, and effectively capture and make visible your impact on the mission.
- Hone an effective, easy-to-use LLM and RAG experience that will be used by your immediate CNMF customer and many, many others.
Skills Requirements:
- A courageous personality unafraid to ask questions, get answers, and deliver.
- Excellent communication skills, motivated first and foremost by mission impact and seeing what you build be used.
- Passion for user experience and maintaining quality as your user base grows.
- Experience building amazing user interfaces (particularly with React and Next.JS, but knowledge of any modern UI library is highly valued!).
- Knowledge of modern middleware frameworks (comfort using something along the lines of Express, Flask, Spring, FastAPI, etc.).
- Comfort with basic computer administration including software installation, system configuration, and networking. Comfort with git and automated build pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.).
Nice to Haves:
- Passion for observability (Elastic, APM, Grafana, etc.).
- Experience integrating software with a Large Language Model (LLM).
- Experience with retrieval-agumented generation (RAG).
- Production-grade software development experience with Python.
- Service containerization and deployment with Docker and Kubernetes or Swarm.
- Experience building prototypes and understanding the value of frequent iterations and user feedback.
- Previous experience working with CNO, USCC, CNMF, or some form of cybersecurity-related past.
- Experience with any of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Redis, Kafka, Nginx, AWS, HAProxy. Experience integrating open source models and technologies.
- Excellent Jira hygiene.
YOE Requirement: 3 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph
Clarity Innovations provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.
