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Company: SAIC
Location: VA
Career Level: Associate
Industries: Technology, Software, IT, Electronics

Description

Description

The Customer has an environment dedicated to tradecraft innovation and is a unique addition to the Intelligence Community (IC). This office incorporates new and emerging commercial technologies, along with tailored and specific technical and analytic capabilities in order to achieve its core mission. Partnerships with tradecraft schools and mission elements drive discovery and definition of projects suitable to Customer's capabilities. The Customer provides an environment for concept incubation, prototype evaluation, and pilot execution in the effort to advance technical intelligence, tradecraft, capabilities, and techniques. The efficiencies gained by collocating technical tradecraft capabilities with new employee training and development provides a comprehensive perspective of exactly what new employees may encounter when they go to the field. 

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Contractor team ensures that all developed applications and modifications to existing Customer applications operate in compliance with applicable documents. Compliance standards could include security accreditation, program management control gates, integration with external services (e.g., access control, auditing), patching and maintaining current versions of software, outage reporting, accessibility requirements, internal-use software reporting, auditing, logging, solution reconstitution testing, and technical directives. Planned activities shall be coordinated with all stakeholders and approved by the Customer. a. The Contractor Team shall, within an Open-source Environment utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML), develop the ability to correlate data from various sources to create real time pattern of life predictability. b. The Contractor Team shall support ongoing development on tools to gather data from various COTS sensor-based sources and develop systems to return data to Customer. c. The Contractor Team shall support transitioning developed tools and systems to Customer's Enterprise system. d. The Contractor Team shall follow policy requirements related to application retooling and development. e. The Contractor Team shall support tool implementation on Customer's Enterprise system. f. The Contractor Team shall modify applications to meet compliance with the Customer's architectural and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) process. g. The Contractor Team shall develop tools to enable technology starting from various initial maturity levels. h. The Contractor Team shall develop and support scalable and secure functionality into software applications. i. The Contractor Team shall study how to use Machine Learning to simulate human learning activities, to improve their performance by data analyzing without following the instructions of the program. j. The Contractor Team shall develop data framework for data analysis to support end-user data discovery and data correlation. k. The Contractor Team shall design, setup and perform technical demonstrations. l. The Contractor Team shall incorporate multiple technologies for novel solutions. m. The Contractor Team shall enact ad-hoc technical experiments to test tradecraft concepts. 

Tools Development (~1 FTE) a. The Contractor shall collaborate with team members, customers, service providers and developers to identify requirements; identify new opportunities as technologies develop to recommend for implementation. b. The Contractor shall analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. c. The Contractor shall advise customer about, or perform, maintenance of software systems. d. The Contractor shall analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan specifications and layouts. e. The Contractor shall confer with IT professionals/project managers to design system, define performance requirements, interfaces and obtain information on limitations and capabilities for IT projects. f. The Contractor shall consult with customers about software system design and maintenance. g. The Contractor shall consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, and technical issues such as software system design and maintenance. h. The Contractor shall consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, develop specifications and performance requirements and resolve customer problems. i. The Contractor shall coordinate installation of software system. j. The Contractor shall coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met. k. The Contractor shall design, develop, and modify software systems and measure outcome and consequences of design. l. The Contractor shall design, develop, and maintain tools within various network environments, including the cloud environment. m. The Contractor shall develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation. n. The Contractor shall estimate software development costs and schedule for tools development. o. The Contractor shall evaluate factors such as reporting formats required, cost constraints, and need for security restrictions to determine software/hardware configuration. p. The Contractor shall modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance. q. The Contractor shall prepare reports and correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, and status. r. The Contractor shall review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques. s. The Contractor shall store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements. t. The Contractor shall train users to use new or modified equipment. 

CORE COMPETENCIES:

  • Software Development - Develop tools to enable technology starting from various initial maturity levels

Qualifications

Required Skills:

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1. Demonstrated experience describing complex technical matters to non-technical trained staff.

2. Demonstrated experience in the design, setup and operation of technical demonstrations.

3. Demonstrated experience incorporating multiple technologies for novel solutions.

4. Demonstrated experience enacting ad-hoc technical experiments to test tradecraft concepts.

5. Demonstrated experience with Open source Operating systems (i.e. CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux).

6. Demonstrated experience with implementing Docker containers and Vagrant environments to ship and deploy software packages.

7. Demonstrated experience with JavaScript.

8. Demonstrated experience with Java EE.

9. Demonstrated experience with Python.


SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.


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