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Mid-Senior Level Software Engineer

Whitespace
Alexandria, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/20/2025
Are you ready to be part of a team that creates cutting-edge AI-powered analysis and simulation on-demand? At Whitespace, we use our Iris platform to uncover hidden relationships and patterns of life (POL) at machine speed, enhancing mission performance like never before. Our Worldline platform takes it a step further by creating a digital twin of POL, observed through synthetic sensors, to boost training, readiness, and mission planning solutions.

We're looking for talented software engineers to help customize Worldline for a special project. Worldline generates synthetic, large-scale, geo-tagged data to simulate human activity, curated by experts to ensure realism while maintaining ethical standards. This state-of-the-art platform is used in AI, data science, higher education, technology demonstrations, and geospatial intelligence, pushing the boundaries of location intelligence and data modeling.

You'll be supporting a research and development project under the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), whose mission is to lead the discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for air, space, and cyberspace forces. AFRL is at the forefront of modern technology, delivering innovative solutions that provide a strategic advantage to the U.S. Air Force and Space Force.

If you're passionate about making a difference in the world and being part of groundbreaking technology in national security, this position is for you!

This position is 100% remote! We're looking for a candidate who is a U.S. citizen and resides in the contiguous United States. You'll be a W-2 employee of GeoDelphi, Inc., and we do not accept third-party applications. This role requires less than 5% travel, including a two-week stay in Rome, NY, and occasional trips to the DMV area to collaborate with the managing team.

This position is a mid-to-senior level non-management software developer and reports to the VP of Engineering.

Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Research, develop, design, modify, write, implement, and test software geared towards population simulation
  • Work with customers/end users to define project requirements, and turn those requirements into an achievable timeline
  • Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in back-end development tools and technologies
  • Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code in various languages, primarily Java
  • Recommend changes to improve established application processes
  • Prepare and produce releases of software components
  • Provide technical support and consultation for application and infrastructure questions


Experience

  • Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a software engineering role
  • Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production software
  • Assist in defining architecture requirements and establishing standards for design and development
  • Consults with management and customers regarding product feasibility and viability of product plans and designs
  • Factor emerging technologies and product supportability into design and implementation
  • Strong coding abilities emphasizing quality and testability in your work
  • Utilize programming languages such as Java and Python
  • Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
  • Demonstrated experience with continuous integration and software CM processes/tools (GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Nexus, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools)
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and query optimization
  • Provides product demonstrations and participates in trade shows, seminars, industry panels, and user group meetings
  • Experience acquiring client requirements and resolving workflow problems through automation optimization
  • Interacts with customers regarding strategies, requirements, problem-solving, and support


Desired Skills

  • Bachelor's Degree is desired but not required. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience with population simulation, or other data simulation
  • Experience leading a software development effort across the full spectrum of government Modeling and Simulation environments
  • Experience with geospatial engineering
  • Experience with Big Data processing tools, such as Spark/Hadoop, Google's BigQuery, AWS's Athena, and EMR
  • Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Azure
  • Strong data visualization skills


Benefits

GEODELPHI BENEFITS

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Federal Holiday Paid Leave
  • 12 weeks of paid Parental Leave
  • Employer paid STD/LTD
  • Employer Paid Life Insurance
  • 401K plan and Employer Match
  • Professional Development Assistance
  • Equity Incentive Plan


Who we are:

GeoDelphi, Inc. dba Whitespace is building AI solutions for global leaders. Recognized as the most innovative company in the Geospatial Industry, Whitespace exponentially accelerates speed-to-answer with powerful analytics, high-cadence data feeds, and human expert-machine teaming. Our answers are rooted in truth data about human activity, delivering reliable decision advantage that keeps pace with world events. Whitespace is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. For further information, visit: http://www.inthewhitespace.com.

GeoDelphi, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, disability, or Veteran status.

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