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R&D \nLocation: United States\nWork Model: Remote\nTravel: Approximately 15% for R&D events, technical demos, and collaboration sessions\nClearance: U.S. citizenship required. Active Secret clearance preferred; candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.\nBuild Mission-Focused Software and AI Capabilities\nRackner is seeking a Software/AI Developer. R&D to design, build, test, and demonstrate software and AI-enabled capabilities supporting government and defense missions.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys turning ideas and mission needs into working software. You will work alongside R&D engineers, technical leaders, and mission stakeholders to rapidly develop prototypes, backend services, APIs, data workflows, and AI-enabled applications that can be tested with real users and matured into operational capabilities.\nThe right person is a strong software developer who is comfortable working in an R&D environment where requirements may evolve as we learn. You should be able to take ownership of technical problems, write quality code, experiment with new approaches, and move from an early concept to a working demonstration.\nThe work may involve AI/ML applications, large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, backend development, APIs, data pipelines, analytics, automation, mission systems, and cloud-native software.\nWhat You’ll Build\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain software for mission-focused R&D projects.\nBuild backend services, APIs, integrations, and data-processing workflows.\nDevelop AI-enabled applications using LLMs, machine learning models, and other modern AI technologies.\nBuild and evaluate AI agents, retrieval workflows, automation tools, and other AI-assisted capabilities.\nIntegrate AI models and services into usable software applications rather than treating AI as a standalone experiment.\nDevelop prototypes and proofs of concept that can be demonstrated to government customers and mission users.\nWork with structured and unstructured data, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and retrieval.\nWrite clean, maintainable, testable code and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.\nDebug software, integration, data, and model-related issues across development and testing environments.\nCollaborate with DevSecOps engineers to containerize, deploy, monitor, and improve applications in cloud and secure environments.\nEvaluate new AI models, frameworks, libraries, and development approaches for potential use in R&D projects.\nParticipate in technical demos, field events, experiments, and customer feedback sessions.\nTurn feedback from technical teams and mission users into software improvements and new capabilities.\nDocument technical decisions, APIs, system behavior, and development approaches so solutions can be maintained and extended.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nU.S. citizenship due to federal contract requirements.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.\nStrong hands-on software development experience, particularly with Python.\nExperience developing backend applications, services, APIs, or data-driven software.\nExperience building, integrating, or supporting AI/ML or generative AI applications.\nUnderstanding of software engineering fundamentals, including application design, testing, debugging, version control, and code review.\nExperience working with APIs, JSON, databases, and structured or semi-structured data.\nAbility to take a technical problem from concept through implementation and demonstration.\nExperience working in fast-moving environments where requirements may not be fully defined at the beginning.\nAbility to independently investigate technical problems, evaluate options, and build practical solutions.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills with engineers, technical leaders, and non-engineering stakeholders.\nWillingness to travel approximately 15% for R&D events, demos, testing, and collaboration sessions.\nHelpful Experience\nActive Secret clearance or higher.\nExperience supporting DoD, Air Force, Space Force, mission command, battle management, C2, ISR, mission planning, autonomy, or other national security programs.\nExperience developing applications using LLMs, generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, or model APIs.\nExperience evaluating model outputs, accuracy, reliability, latency, and other AI performance considerations.\nExperience with AI/ML frameworks or libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar technologies.\nExperience with REST APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, or backend frameworks.\nExperience with SQL, NoSQL databases, data pipelines, or data-processing frameworks.\nFamiliarity with AWS, Azure, or other cloud platforms.\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git, Terraform, Helm, or similar development and deployment technologies.\nFamiliarity with MLOps, model deployment, observability, evaluation, or production AI workflows.\nExperience developing software for disconnected, classified, edge, or other constrained environments.\nExperience building prototypes, proofs of concept, technical demos, or experimental software.\nExperience working in R&D, defense technology, applied AI, or startup-like engineering environments.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn this role, success means turning mission problems and R&D concepts into software that actually works. You will be expected to write code, build and integrate AI capabilities, test ideas quickly, and work closely with the team to determine what is worth developing further.\nYou do not need to be an expert in every AI framework or infrastructure technology listed above. We are looking for a strong software developer who understands how to build reliable applications, has meaningful exposure to modern AI development, and is comfortable learning new technologies as the R&D mission evolves.\nTravel & Event Support\nThis role requires approximately 15% travel for R&D events, technical demos, collaboration sessions, and mission-focused engagements.\nTravel is planned in advance whenever possible and may include customer-facing or internal engineering events.\nAbout Rackner\nRackner is a software consultancy focused on building mission-critical systems for the U.S. government. 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