AI Software Engineer - Mid Level at Mission Systems – Telework, Massachusetts

AI Software Engineer - Mid Level

ID: 2026-71763
US-Telework-Telework US-AZ-Scottsdale US-PA-Pittsburgh US-MN-Bloomington US-VA-Chantilly US-CA-San Jose
Required Clearance: No clearance
Posted Date: 4/2/2026
Category: Engineering-Software
Employment Type: Full Time
Hiring Company: General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.
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:

- 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.

Expected Skills:

- 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

What Sets You Apart:

- 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)

Our Commitment to You:

• 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

Workplace Options:
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.

Salary Note

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.

Combined Salary Range

USD $124,397.00 - USD $138,003.00 /Yr.

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

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