SME Software Engineer with Security Clearance

GRAY WOLF SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SME Chantilly, VA area Active TS/SCI and FS poly required KEY TASKS: • Participate in all Lean Agile scrums, sprints, and sessions. • Consult and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification. • Work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors. • Understand the cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure. • Coordinate and collaborate with security, operations, engineering, testing, and other teams to provide system information and technical support. • Design, develop, and modify software systems. • Document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates. • Unit test software and perform code. • Design and implement scalable search and retrieval systems leveraging ElasticSearch. • Develop and integrate LLM-powered capabilities, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE: • Working in Lean Agile Development environment. • Building or integrating LLM-based solutions, including RAG, semantic search, or AI-assisted retrieval systems. • Developing detailed design and associated deliverables. • Translating customer and system requirements into design. • Designing system interfaces. • Developing Single Page Applications using React (modern hooks-based architecture), HTML5,CSS3. • Developing RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express (or comparable moder backend frameworks). • Troubleshooting Internet and Web related protocols and technologies such as Tomcat, Nodejs, Web Services, or SSL. • Testing platforms such as Jest or Karma. • Working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus. • Experience with Elasticsearch (index design, querying, relevance tuning, and scaling). • Designing or implementing data pipelines to support search and/or RAG workflows (e.g., ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search). HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE: • Recent experience with the Sponsor’s Lean Agile methodology • Evaluating, selecting, and integrating LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, open-source models) into enterprise applications. • Experience with vector databases, hybrid search (keyword + semantic), and relevance optimization. • Ability to lead or mentor teams in adopting search + AI/LLM best practices.