Ardent Principles
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How Ardent Principles hires
Truth index
A 100/100
Median time to fill
11 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
17%
Ardent Principles scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 17% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 11 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Ardent Principles is an American information technology services firm in the Washington DC area that offers data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation and IT program management to its clients. It was founded by chief executive Robert McCauley, a Howard University computer science graduate with more than two decades in IT, and most of its openings are in Northern Virginia, chiefly Chantilly, McLean, Herndon and Reston. It hires software developers in Java, Spring Boot and ServiceNow, data scientists, machine learning and AI engineers, cloud, network and Linux engineers, cyber security engineers and systems architects.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ardent Principles over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
126
Postings analysed
48
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python42%
JavaScript31%
Java25%
SQL15%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js10%
Angular8%
PyTorch8%
Spring Boot8%
Databases
ElasticSearch13%
PostgreSQL10%
Neo4j8%
MySQL8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS38%
Azure17%
GitHub15%
Linux15%
AI & ML
LLM4%
Mamba2%
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Full Ardent Principles tech stack
126 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$260k
Typical range
$115k – $260k
Open positions
23
4
Jobs
Architect
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architect | 4 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Data Scientist
$260k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Ardent Principles
By role, level and city, against the market · 23 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
96/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
24
23 opened / 25 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
11 days
faster than 71% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
27% ▲
Data Science
16% ▼
Security
9% ▲
AI/ML
7% ▲
DevOps
6%
Analytics
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Verification & Validation to stack
Oct 2026
Added Transformers to stack
Oct 2026
Added Semantic Search to stack
Oct 2026
Added Scikit-learn to stack
Oct 2026
Added RAG to stack
Oct 2026
Added ONNX to stack
Oct 2026
Added Keras to stack
Oct 2026
Added Hugging Face to stack
Oct 2026
Added Flask to stack
Oct 2026
Added Explainable AI to stack
Oct 2026
Added Unix to stack
Oct 2026
Added Scala to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chantilly
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Chantilly
United States
HQ
8 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security, AI/ML
McLean
United States
Engineering / R&D
9 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 89% engineering 10-50 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Data Science, Security
Fort Meade
United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $115k Avg Salary
hires for Analytics
Herndon
United States
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $115k Avg Salary
hires for Analytics
Reston
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Data Science
Jobs
$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · McLean
JavaScript
Git
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · McLean
JavaScript
TypeScript
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
Design
Figma
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · McLean
Python
Perl
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≈ $105k – $224k per year (Estimated) · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · Reston
Python
SQL
OpenSearch
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Azure
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
GitHub
Amazon S3
IAM
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · McLean
Python
SQL
Flask
AI/ML
Scikit-learn
ONNX
Transformers
TensorFlow
Keras
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
Explainable AI
Hugging Face
Semantic Search
Machine Learning
DevOps
Jenkins
GitHub
Analytics
Tableau
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · McLean
PowerShell
Oracle
MS SQL
DevOps
VMWare
Windows Server
Hyper-V
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time
Python
JavaScript
Java
Spring Boot
Apache Tomcat
Databases
MySQL
MariaDB
Frontend
JQuery
DevOps
Rest API
Git
GitHub
Linux
Windows
Apache HTTP Server
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
LDAP
PKI
Cryptography
OpenSSL
Management
Confluence
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · Chantilly
Python
Java
SQL
C#
Scala
MySQL
PostgreSQL
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
Airflow
Dagster
Flyte
DevOps
GCP
Podman
Azure
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Unix
Analytics
Apache NiFi
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · Chantilly
Python
Java
SQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Neo4j
DevOps
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apache NiFi
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · Chantilly
Python
JavaScript
VMWare
Linux
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$130k – $260k per year · In office · TS/SCI · Full-Time · Chantilly
Python
JavaScript
VMWare
Linux
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