Top Python Jobs in Washington, DC

Owns technical strategy, architecture, and engineering delivery across a portfolio of national security customer accounts. The role involves hands-on software development, customer discovery, prototype-to-production delivery, platform contribution, security authorization, technical governance, and mentoring engineers. Responsibilities include integrating with government systems, shaping opportunities, managing engineering capacity, producing architecture artifacts, and guiding systems through DoD compliance and ATO requirements. Requires regular customer engagement and up to 20% travel.

Build and enhance cloud-based applications for mission-critical workloads. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, debugging, integrating, and deploying application modules; developing CI/CD pipelines; applying cloud-native, DevOps, security, scalability, and performance practices; and collaborating with project managers and development partners to deliver, monitor, and support cloud services.

Leads and mentors simulation framework engineers building C++ and Python interfaces, adapters, and plugins for multiple simulation backends. Drives the HMSF product and migration roadmap, maintains legacy HMSSimBlocks support, and influences platform requirements. Ensures interoperability with defense simulation standards and supports hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing. Partners with program, integration, autonomy, and platform teams while improving documentation, templates, and developer enablement.

Designs prototype mechanical parts and integrates mechanical, electrical, compute, power, communications, propulsion, and sensor subsystems onto unmanned platforms. Plans and conducts bench, laboratory, and field tests; instruments hardware, analyzes data, and drives design improvements. Creates CAD designs for rapid fabrication, debugs electromechanical systems, documents interfaces and test results, and supports transition of validated prototypes to product and engineering teams.

Build and deploy data-driven software solutions directly with customers. Responsibilities include understanding complex operational problems, designing architectures, wrangling large-scale data, coding custom web applications, collaborating with technical and non-technical teams, engaging customer executives, and owning high-stakes projects end to end with minimal supervision.

Owns propulsion hardware and capabilities from requirements and architecture through procurement, integration, testing, flight, and operational deployment. Leads engine performance and vehicle integration, technical reviews, supplier engagement, propulsion testing, data analysis, failure investigations, and corrective actions. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and flight teams while mentoring junior personnel. Requires strong gas turbine propulsion fundamentals, hands-on aerospace hardware experience, Python-based engineering analysis, and U.S. citizenship with clearance eligibility.

Owns build and deployment automation, platform health, scaling, monitoring, and high-availability DevOps pipelines. The role involves developing self-service tools, expanding a multi-account AWS environment, improving SRE practices, and securing systems for commercial and high-side environments. Requires strong AWS, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, scripting, and monitoring expertise, plus U.S. citizenship and TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph clearance. Travel to a Washington, DC customer site may reach 50%.

Develop and maintain software solutions for tax technology and client service delivery. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and reviewing application features using Python, C# .NET, and React Native. The role translates technical requirements into deliverables, improves functionality based on feedback and data, collaborates across teams, manages workstreams, and mentors junior engineers.

Develop software solutions supporting tax service delivery and digital transformation. Responsibilities include coding, testing, debugging, application design, deployment, data analysis, defect resolution, requirements translation, code reviews, documentation, and collaboration with tax technology teams.

Work on customer-facing, high-impact projects as an intern FDSE: design and implement data-driven solutions, wrangle large-scale data, build web apps, discuss architecture, and own end-to-end execution while collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders. May require travel and US government background checks.

Leads the development and deployment of data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP. Manages engineering teams, coaches team members, oversees project planning and execution, analyzes system interactions, manages client relationships, and drives innovation. The role applies software engineering, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML techniques to deliver scalable client solutions while maintaining technical and professional standards.

Leads the development and deployment of software and data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include data engineering, analytics, system improvement, client account management, project ownership, team leadership, coaching, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. The role requires building scalable applications with large datasets and delivering customer-focused solutions.

Develops and maintains on-premises DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, virtualization, and deployment workflows. Supports secure application builds, releases, testing, disaster recovery, and Tier II/III troubleshooting while ensuring compliance with DISA STIGs and DoD cybersecurity requirements. Collaborates with systems, network, security, application, and government teams at the Washington Navy Yard.

Develop Python-based automated tests, validation tools, analysis utilities, and quality metrics for autonomous systems. Support testing across simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, laboratory, and hardware environments. Analyze results, debug integration issues, improve regression and performance testing, integrate tests into CI/CD workflows, and collaborate with autonomy, systems engineering, flight test, and integration teams.

Develop Python-based automated testing, simulation analysis, log-processing, scenario-generation, and domain-randomization tools for the Hivemind Platform. Support test orchestration, distributed simulation, containerized environments, CI/CD, build troubleshooting, and technical documentation. Investigate failures using logs, telemetry, rosbags, network captures, and test results while collaborating with autonomy, systems, and platform engineers.

Develop Python-based tools for simulation-data analysis, log processing, automated testing, scenario generation, and autonomy performance evaluation. Support test orchestration, distributed simulation, containerized environments, CI/CD, infrastructure configuration, debugging, and developer documentation. Collaborate with software, autonomy, systems, and platform engineers while contributing to reliable and repeatable Hivemind Platform testing workflows.

Develop C++ software interfaces connecting autonomy software with sensors, flight controllers, payloads, radios, and vehicle systems. Configure Linux mission computers, implement communication protocols, develop Python testing tools, and debug distributed-system data flow. Support software, hardware, vehicle, laboratory, and field integration testing while collaborating with autonomy, systems, test, and flight teams.

Build and maintain enterprise DevOps and developer-experience infrastructure for Hivemind Solutions. Responsibilities include GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runner fleets, automation integrations, cloud-based simulation environments, Artifactory registries, secure container builds, Nix developer environments, and troubleshooting distributed development systems. The role requires strong scripting, Linux administration, cloud, security, and CI/CD expertise, along with eligibility for an active U.S. Secret clearance.

Develop and maintain C++ and Python simulation adapters, plugins, interfaces, and reusable framework components. Support migration from HMSSimBlocks to HMSF, integrate simulation backends, maintain CIGI and DDS interfaces, troubleshoot autonomy integration issues, and create tests and documentation. Collaborate with senior engineers on code reviews, debugging, design discussions, and integration support across simulation and autonomy teams.

Develops and tests hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure for mission autonomy and vision systems on crewed and uncrewed aircraft. Responsibilities include Python test automation, integration and regression testing in HIL, SIL, and VIL environments, sensor and onboard processing integration, software and firmware validation, troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, network, and software interfaces, and supporting ground and flight tests. Requires hands-on hardware/software integration experience, Python, Linux, practical electrical and mechanical skills, and ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Develop and maintain C++ and Python simulation adapters, plugins, interfaces, and reusable components. Support migration from HMSSimBlocks to HMSF, integrate simulation backends, maintain CIGI and DDS communications, diagnose distributed-system issues, and create tests and documentation. Collaborate with simulation, autonomy, and integration teams on code reviews, debugging, and framework improvements.

Lead development and operation of secure cloud infrastructure and container platforms. Build AWS environments, deploy and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, automate infrastructure with Ansible and scripting, and improve DevOps and DevSecOps delivery pipelines. Guide platform strategy, enforce standards, integrate security testing, and support monitoring, scaling, recovery, identity, networking, and storage across cloud and application environments.

Leads architecture, full-stack development, scalable application design, dashboards, backend integrations, AI-enabled features, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, monitoring, and production support. Mentors engineering teams, establishes technical standards, guides strategy, and develops solutions for payer operations, metadata, contracts, and performance measurement.

Build and maintain Microsoft 365 solutions including SPFx components, Power Platform applications, API integrations, ETL pipelines, and CI/CD deployments. Manage SharePoint migrations, Azure-based data processes, authentication, governance, accessibility, and performance. Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements, design user experiences, document solutions, provide training, and maintain secure, supportable systems.

Designs, implements, and maintains VMware-based hyperconverged infrastructure in a large enterprise data center. Responsibilities include administering VxRail and vSAN environments, resolving storage and performance issues, managing the data lifecycle, planning capacity, monitoring compliance, supporting upgrades and migrations, documenting systems, and participating in incident response and root cause analysis. The role requires onsite work and the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance or suitability determination.