# Associate Software Engineer

What We Do: The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a premier national research center dedicated to advancing software engineering, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. We work at the intersection of defense, government, industry, and academia to solve some of the nation's most complex software challenges. Our mission: enable organizations to build, deploy, and scale resilient, secure, defect-free software systems that perform reliably in critical operational environments. Position Summary: At the SEI’s Enabling Edge Intelligence (E2I) team, we bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI and edge systems research and real-world deployment. Our team of software engineers, researchers, and data scientists designs and optimizes intelligent edge systems for operation in resource-constrained edge environments where safety, reliability, and performance are essential. We are seeking a driven Associate Software Engineer eager to shape the future of intelligent edge systems. In this role, you will collaborate with world-class faculty, leading researchers, and industry to prototype, mature, and transition technologies to government and defense organizat

- **Id**: 3833072
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/software-engineering-institute-associate-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pittsburgh, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T20:07:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T20:55:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3832
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Engineering Services, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 46403
- **Name**: Software Engineering Institute
- **Domain**: sei.cmu.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sei-cmu>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 44
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.523
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T20:07:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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