Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking a Software Engineer to support all aspects of agile software development for a full featured service hosted on large scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud Infrastructure
Primary Responsibilities
- Duties include development, testing and integration of capabilities, optimization & performance tuning, and operation & sustainment functions
- Responsible for evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Math, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required
- Four (4) years of additional SWE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI
- Experience in AWS Cloud Architecture design
- Proficiency in using AWS SDKs and APIs
- Knowledge and skill in implementing and using observability tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Expertise in Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing and Monitoring practices
- Experience in Java programming for distributed systems, with experience in networking and multi-threading
- Experience with Agile development and tools with source code management practices
- Familiarity with microservices software development techniques and container-orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of security and compliance best practices
Desired Qualifications
- No desired qualifications listed at this time
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Top Skills
What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our
customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015.
Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions
forward.
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