Top Python Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, maintain, and govern databases that support project controls (cost, schedule, EVM). Ensure availability, performance, security, and data quality. Integrate systems (Primavera, EcoSys, Power BI), build ETL pipelines and automation (SQL, Python), enable reporting, and support project controls teams with governance, monitoring, and user training.

Embed with a single U.S. Intelligence Community customer to architect, build, deploy, secure, and operate OCI-based cloud solutions. Lead Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, networking, identity, container platforms, observability, and production hardening. Own delivery outcomes and drive adoption, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer while influencing Oracle product direction.

As a Community Engineer, you will develop AI-powered tools and maintain community operations, engaging with diverse software engineers and delivering projects independently.

Design and implement scalable, noise-aware quantum circuit simulators (state-vector, tensor-network, stabilizer) and error‑correction pipelines. Integrate hardware-specific noise models, mid-circuit measurement and decoders, and optimize simulation pipelines for HPC, GPUs, or distributed systems. Collaborate with hardware and algorithm teams, prototype new simulation methods, and support performance estimation and business development.

Build, operate, and modernize a cloud-native enterprise data platform powering SaaS AI products. Responsibilities include data ingestion, storage, querying, quality, governance, and operational excellence, collaborating with engineers to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions and refactor legacy systems.

Design and automate deployment pipelines for enterprise API Gateway implementations. Develop CI/CD/GitOps workflows, infrastructure and configuration automation, and support API deployments using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and container platforms.

Design and build automated API onboarding, lifecycle management, deployment automation, and developer self-service. Implement REST APIs, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows. Integrate developer portals, API publishing/governance, and enterprise integration for a federal contractor environment.

The Data/AI Cloud Engineer will implement AWS data services, build ETL pipelines, optimize databases, and support data-driven solutions collaborating with technical teams.

As a Missions Software Engineer, you'll collaborate with defense customers to integrate and operationalize vehicle intelligence products, tackling software engineering, hardware integration, and project execution challenges.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will integrate Applied Intuition's vehicle intelligence products with defense and government customers, overseeing technical execution for complex systems.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you'll integrate vehicle intelligence products with government systems, collaborate on deployment, tackle technical challenges, and ensure successful project execution in military environments.

The Senior Enterprise Architect leads the design and implementation of network and cloud architectures, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and industry practices. Responsibilities include defining architecture frameworks, advising on cloud adoption, ensuring security compliance, and managing cross-functional teams.

Develop and support quantum algorithms and software, collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams, build MVPs for quantum and AI use cases, and apply software engineering practices to scale quantum systems in lab or agile environments.

Lead QA validation and test strategy: analyze requirements, design test plans and environments, execute and review functional and automated tests, manage defects and triage, coordinate onsite/offshore QA teams, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality, defect-free solutions in an Agile environment.

Develop and integrate software solutions for satellite vehicles, collaborating with teams and stakeholders to ensure mission requirements are met.

As a Federal DevOps Engineer, you will manage the technical lifecycle of federal deployments, ensuring compliance and driving product improvements through direct engagement with customers.

Design, deploy, and scale Linux automation solutions using Ansible and IaC. Implement monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. Translate stakeholder needs into idempotent automation, enforce compliance (STIG/RMF/NIST), mentor team members, and evolve enterprise automation architecture in a mission-critical environment.

Design, deploy, and automate core infrastructure (on‑prem and cloud) and manage Kubernetes and Linux fleets. Collaborate with engineers to build scalable, operable services and improve lifecycle: testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and performance.

As a Software Engineer, you will design and build backend services for Relativity's generative AI platform, focusing on scalability and reliability in distributed systems.

Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. Implement monitoring, automated alerting, incident response, automation, chaos engineering, and rollback/recovery. Build dashboards, runbooks, and scripts; analyze capacity and performance; respond to outages and conduct post-incident reviews. Collaborate with development, cloud, and cybersecurity teams and implement security best practices across operations.

Six-month on-site software engineering co-op building production features for the Nuclear Operating System (NOS). Work spans product, platform, and data squads, including AI-powered features (LLMs, RAG, agents), data integrations (Palantir Foundry, AWS GovCloud), automated testing, and field deployment tooling. Ship production code alongside engineers and nuclear experts.

12-week Summer 2027 software engineering internship building production features in the Nuclear Operating System (NOS). Work includes AI-powered features (LLM/agent-backed), retrieval and tool-calling, data integrations with Palantir Foundry and AWS GovCloud, converting prototypes to production, field deployment tooling, and automated testing/compliance to keep NOS audit-ready. On-site in Washington, DC; interns ship real features alongside full-time engineers and nuclear experts.

Design, develop, and maintain Palantir Foundry solutions: build ontology objects, workspaces, dashboards, and forms; manage datasets and data transformations; gather and translate business requirements; troubleshoot, document, and support Foundry applications while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

The Java Production Support Developer will analyze, develop, integrate, and maintain applications, providing support, troubleshooting, and mentoring team members. They will ensure software meets functional and non-functional requirements while collaborating with various technical teams.

Provide hands-on administration, modernization, security, automation, and cloud migration for the Department of Education OIG's Oracle databases, middleware, analytics, identity, and storage. Perform patching, tuning, OCI migrations, automation scripting, monitoring, backup/recovery, documentation, and knowledge transfer while supporting hybrid on-premises and Oracle Cloud environments.