软件项目负责人
Software Project Lead
DEFCON AI 专注于在动荡中保持韧性。DEFCON AI 是一家洞察公司，利用人工智能、数学优化、数据分析和软件工程，对复杂系统进行弹性优化。
在当今不断变化的世界中，DEFCON AI 的技术能够使结果与运营目标一致，提升决策质量，并帮助客户预测、评估和减轻干扰的影响。
**职位简介**
这是一个难得的机会，作为关键 DoW 项目的技术负责人，从客户的问题到最终部署的软件，全程负责并推动项目的完成。
作为软件项目负责人，你将负责一个专门计划的软件设计、架构和交付。你首先领导，必要时亲自参与：具备足够的软件能力可以亲自动手并覆盖工作内容，同时具备数据科学和 AI 的知识，可以帮助决定开发什么内容并引入合适的专家。最重要的是，你负责领导和沟通，指导项目中的开发人员，设定技术方向，并确保客户和团队保持一致。
具体来说，你负责三件事：软件本身的构建、将优化和分析工作整合到产品中，以及从非机密开发到安全交付的路径。你不会独自工作：项目经理负责客户节奏，领域专家负责任务内容，优化科学家负责分析核心。你的工作是协调他们的工作，并将其转化为可发布的软件，从现有的起点出发，构建一个持久且可部署的系统。
这项工作涵盖了现代商业工程实践和 DoW 交付的实际情况，包括从非机密开发过渡到政府机密环境以满足真实数据需求。这是一个完全远程的工作，根据需要可能有高达 25% 的出差时间前往客户现场、DEFCON AI 总部和供应商设施。
**主要职责**
**系统拥有与架构**
- 负责项目的软件设计、架构、交付和部署
- 对交付负责；确保项目在范围、进度和风险方面保持诚实，并尽早提出问题。
- 倾向于使用经过验证的开源和现成工具，重用已有的内容，而不是从零开始构建。
**需求与客户互动**
- 与客户和最终用户一起工作，收集需求，并将他们所需的内容转化为设计和计划，包括用户体验
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ABOUT DEFCON AI
RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems.
In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions.
**About the Role**
This is a rare opportunity to be the software champion for a mission-critical DoW effort, owning it end to end from the customer's problem to working, deployed software.
As a Software Project Lead, you will own the software design, architecture, and delivery for a dedicated program. You lead first and build when needed: strong enough in software to get hands-on and cover ground yourself, and conversant enough in data science and AI to help decide what gets built and pull in the right specialists. Above all you lead and communicate, directing the developers on the effort, setting technical direction, and keeping the customer and team aligned.
Concretely, you own three things: the software build itself, integrating the optimization and analytics work into the product, and the path from unclassified development to secure delivery. You will not be alone: a program manager owns customer cadence, a subject-matter expert owns the mission content, and an optimization scientist owns the analytic core. Your job is to coordinate their work and turn it into shipped software, building from an existing starting point toward a durable, deployable system.
The work spans both modern commercial engineering practices and the realities of DoW delivery, with unclassified development that moves to a government classified environment to meet real data. This is a fully remote role with travel up to 25% to the customer site, DEFCON AI HQ, and vendor facilities as required.
**Key Responsibilities**
**System Ownership & Architecture**
- Own the software design, architecture, delivery & deployment for the program
- Be accountable for delivery; keep the effort honest about scope, schedule, and risk, and raise issues early.
- Favor proven, open-source and off-the-shelf tools, and reuse what already exists, over building from scratch.
**Requirements & Customer Engagement**
- Sit with the customer and end users, gather requirements, and turn what they need into a design and a plan, including the user experience and UX direction.
- Represent DEFCON's engineering to the customer and work the "how does our software get onto your network" conversation to a resolution.
- Communicate clearly across many audiences: run stakeholder workshops and translate between the customer, the PM, subject-matter experts, and the optimization and data-science staff.
**Team Leadership & Delivery**
- Drive the technical vision and keep the program aligned to it.
- Coordinate across the PM, subject-matter experts, and the software team, sequence the work, define what "done" looks like, and unblock the team.
- Lead a small software team as the effort grows.
- Own the release cadence from capability intake through demonstration and deployment, aligned to government timelines.
**Unclassified to Secure Delivery**
- Own the unclassified-to-secure delivery path: design so software built in the open runs unchanged once it moves into the government's secure environment.
- Own the data and schema contract that lets the app ingest securely-prepared data it has never seen before, and keep unclassified fixtures and secure-side data in strict parity.
- Drive the transfer process end to end: offline, self-contained packaging, the low-to-high move, and a secure-side smoke test, working it early so it stays off the critical path.
- Keep sensible CI/CD hygiene (testing, security scanning) as a normal engineering practice, and coordinate with the security team on whatever accreditation the program ultimately requires.
**Required Qualifications**
- **8+ years building and shipping production software**, including at least one system owned end to end as the senior technical voice accountable for it, not just a component.
- **Front-end and data visualization engineering** in a modern component framework (React, Angular, Vue, or Blazor): the deliverable is a data-visualization product, so you can architect and personally build its core surfaces.
- **A working lead, not just a director:** this is a small team without other software depth early, so you write and review code directly while leading the developers on the effort.
- **Unclassified-to-secure delivery:** building software in the open so it runs unchanged in a government secure or air-gapped environment, owning the data and schema contract, and driving the transfer. Sensible CI/CD hygiene expected; deep RMF and ATO ownership is a plus, not a requirement.
- **Requirements and architecture instincts:** you can sit with a customer who does not speak software, pull out what they need, and turn it into a design and a plan.
- **Partnering with an optimization scientist:** conversant enough in the analytic core (optimization, dependency management, critical-path analysis) to define the contracts between engine and UI and pressure-test feasibility, without owning the models yourself.
- **Leading small teams** and coordinating across roles (PM, SMEs, data scientists, operations research and analytics, security), customer-facing in a government setting.
- US Citizenship Required
- Active Secret Clearance
- Willingness to Travel up to 25% to customer site, Defcon AI HQ, and vendor facilities as required.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Background in defense and national-security software, especially anything touching classified, cross-domain, or air-gapped environments
- Hands-on depth in optimization or operations research (e.g. building or integrating solvers), or a track record partnering closely with OR and data-science teams
- Experience standing up software in government-furnished or classified environments (IL-6 or equivalent)
- Experience transitioning systems from an existing or incumbent starting point to a durable production system, or standing one up greenfield
- Experience leading AI-augmented software delivery: directing agent-assisted implementation, critically reviewing AI-generated code, and working inside a gated spec, review, and retro workflow (or a clear track record adopting new delivery methods fast). This is how the team works.
- Familiarity with government secure-software platforms and accreditation pipelines (RMF and cATO, containerized or air-gapped delivery), and with platforms such as Iron Bank, Platform One, Second Front (Game Warden), Stormbreaker, or Black Pearl
- Comfortable across a modern software stack: backend in any of Python, C#/.Net, Java, or Node.js, plus JavaScript/TypeScript on the front end, SQL, databases and containerized cloud deployment.
- Deep optimization or operations-research depth, or full-stack depth beyond the front end
- Range to flex across efforts. The core of this role is owning one program, but a lead who can lend a hand across other efforts and help the broader engineering org is a real plus
**What Success Looks Like**
- A program that ships; the customer's problem turned into working, deployed software on the government's timeline
- A clean unclassified-to-secure delivery path: software that runs unchanged on the government's secure environment, with the transfer proven ahead of time
- A customer who trusts DEFCON's engineering, with requirements understood and no surprises
- A small team with clear ownership and a clear definition of done
**What We Offer:**
- A fully remote, results-based environment
- Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
- Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval
- Flexible work environment where you manage your work day
- 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave
**Salary Range:** $175,000-$215,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
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