R&D DevSecOps Engineer

<p><strong>Software/AI Developer &amp; DevSecOps Engineer. R&amp;D</strong></p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> United States<br><strong>Work Model:</strong> Remote<br><strong>Clearance:</strong> U.S. citizenship required. Active Secret clearance preferred; candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.<br><br></p> <p><strong>Build Secure, AI-Enabled Mission Software</strong></p> <p>Rackner is seeking a Software/AI Developer &amp; DevSecOps Engineer. &nbsp;R&amp;D to build mission-focused applications, AI-enabled development tools, and secure software-delivery pipelines for government and defense customers.<br>This is a hands-on role spanning software engineering, generative AI, application modernization, and DevSecOps. You will develop working software while creating the controls needed to use AI coding agents safely in secure government environments.<br><br></p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build backend services, APIs, data workflows, and AI-enabled applications.</li> <li>Develop model-agnostic coding agents and LLM workflows with human approval, prompt history, auditability, and controlled tool access.</li> <li>Enforce architecture, UX, cybersecurity, testing, and deployment standards through automated policies and CI/CD controls.</li> <li>Generate and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, API documentation, and software bills of materials.</li> <li>Use AI-assisted analysis to assess and modernize application portfolios through replatforming, refactoring, retirement, preservation, or API wrapping.</li> <li>Integrate human- and AI-generated code into automated quality, functional, security, accessibility, and compliance testing.</li> <li>Build hardened AI development environments using approved tools, isolated execution, restricted permissions, and secure containers or virtual machines.</li> <li>Develop Platform One-compatible workflows that enforce Iron Bank images, approved cloud services, and Party Bus deployment requirements.</li> <li>Connect user feedback, behavior telemetry, logs, metrics, and platform context to agents that identify issues and prepare reviewed pull requests.</li> <li>Build platform-security automation that finds vulnerabilities and configuration risks, recommends fixes, and produces compliance evidence.</li> <li>Collaborate with software, platform, cybersecurity, and mission teams to move R&amp;D prototypes toward operational use.</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>What You’ll Bring</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong software development experience, par