Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
Seeking an experienced software engineer with experience in AI integration to architect and deliver large-scale AI solutions across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments, with strong expertise in cloud-native and hybrid computing. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in AI/ML model development, deployment, and hosting, as well as proficiency in Python, Kubernetes, and infrastructure management. Proven leadership in both technical and team lead roles is essential, along with a deep understanding of AI use cases and the ability to build tools and frameworks for scalable enterprise applications. Experience integrating cloud and on-prem resources and driving cross-functional collaboration is highly valued. This role must have an understanding of GPU-based computing architectures and deployments of containerized AI models and microservices on CSP infrastructure and edge computing air-gapped systems.
This person will be responsible for leading technical presentations and discussions with the customer and will be responsible for synergizing advancements made within this project with other enterprise services, to ensure appropriate parallel development and integration of AI models is achieved.
Technical Background Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar
- Experience programming in Python and/or other similar languages
- Experience deploying and scaling services and applications using Kubernetes
- Experience working with platform engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD workflows to deploy and horizontally scale software applications for enterprise use cases
- Experience programmatically interacting with cloud (e.g., Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure) services and products (bonus would be experience leveraging CSP AI services (e.g., Bedrock, Azure OpenAI Service)
- Experience with GenAI tools - Large Language Models (LLM) and other multi-modal models
- Experience enabling frontier models for multiple use cases (API-backed app development, multimodal and agentic workflows)
- Experience with design and implementation strategy around AI API gateways and an understanding of the services required to support enterprise development (FinOps, MLOps, rate limiting capabilities, etc.)
- Knowledge of running and managing local models in offline environments including considerations for compute requirements and latency
- Experience examining governance, guardrails, and policies managing AI solutions for enterprise customers
- Experience presenting to clients or other decision makers to present and communicate ideas to various audiences (technical and non-technical)
- Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly
- Available to work onsite at Fort Meade, MD a minimum 3 days per week
- This person will be responsible for breaking out tasking into 2-weeks sprints, planning work based on customer timeframes, and will need to ensure the rest of the team is organized and delivers on time
- This person will be required to present and discuss their technological solutions to key stakeholders and maintain an active strategic technical dialogue with the customer leadership
- Familiarity with the Cyber Operations Domain
- Familiarity with Cross-Domain Solution (CDS) dataflows, schemas, and operations
- Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework
Top Skills
What We Do
Clarity Innovations designs, develops, and deploys force-enhancing software that links human ingenuity to powerful computing and makes our country and our world a better, safer place. Our principles of servant leadership, mutual respect, and technological excellence enable us to thrive on the challenges of the digital frontline.
Clarity is focused on helping the Government redefine its relationship with technology by encouraging the use of DevSecOps and Agile methodologies, small-teams constructs, and process automation. To create an atmosphere that embraces the challenges inherent in progress, we honor creativity and curiosity, supporting exploration and growth with modern tech stacks and methodologies.
We are as much a family as we are a team, collectively engineering technology that improves the lives and work of the people who use it. We empower our people with the tools, training, and vision they need to outperform the competition.
