AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
Responsibilities- Perform system engineering and develop the multimedia review tool using agile methodology to integrate bug fixes, security enhancements, and new capabilities.
- Act as a subject matter expert for all portions of the multimedia review tool code base and lead a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues.
- Deliver multimedia review tool builds using agile processes, providing incremental builds based on agreed-upon MXU requirements.
- Develop and enhance the multimedia review tool to visually display, correlate, and report multimedia data based on metadata and analytic results.
- Integrate the ingestion workflow with other MXU systems to seamlessly transfer data and processing results between systems that may be geographically separated with limited bandwidth.
- Integrate MXU analytics to enable users to view images quickly and intuitively.
- Perform system engineering and system administration to deploy the multimedia review tool to all MXU-designated development and operational environments.
- Maintain multimedia review tool deployments across various infrastructures, ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements.
- Provide level-of-effort and timing estimates during planning sessions.
- Active Top Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, including in-depth knowledge of multimedia processing, analysis, and data management.
- Direct and recent experience building a petabyte-scale multimedia analysis platform.
- Experience developing and maintaining applications that handle petabyte-scale data and high-throughput processing.
- Proficiency in Java and front-end technologies, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Vue.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team, including setting goals, assigning tasks, and driving projects to completion.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex software issues.
- Experience with user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, ensuring tools are accessible and efficient for end users.
- Relevant certifications in technical architecture or software engineering preferred.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access
- 10+ years of software development experience
- In-depth knowledge of multimedia processing, analysis, and data management
- Recent experience building a petabyte-scale multimedia analysis platform
- Experience developing and maintaining applications handling petabyte-scale data and high-throughput processing
- Proficiency in Java
- Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Vue
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and CI/CD practices
- Ability to lead a technical team and drive projects to completion
- Strong problem-solving and complex software troubleshooting skills
- Experience with UI and UX design
- Relevant certifications in technical architecture or software engineering
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AMERICAN SYSTEMS and has not been reviewed or approved by AMERICAN SYSTEMS.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The ESOP provides an ownership stake that adds long-term financial value and complements base pay. This employee-ownership structure stands out within the overall package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with automatic enrollment and broad investment options, alongside the ESOP, strengthens retirement pathways beyond salary. These features are presented as competitive within the defense contracting space.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Base pay is considered fair or comparable to industry peers, particularly for technical roles. Starting compensation is described as solid for areas like cybersecurity, systems administration, and IT engineering.
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What We Do
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned government services contractor that delivers professional, technical, information technology, engineering, analysis, testing, evaluation, and training solutions for complex national-priority programs. Based in McLean, Virginia, the company supports federal customers—particularly defense and other Department of Defense missions—with mission-essential and information engineering, digital engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and lifecycle IT services across critical public-sector environments.







