Summary

SAIC seeks a Senior Software Engineer to integrate AI capabilities into expeditionary systems for the Navy, including sensor kits, unmanned systems, command & control, and TAK. The role spans hands-on development—maintaining Zenoh data mesh in Rust, building React frontends in JavaScript, integrating machine learning models, converting tactical message formats—and technical leadership with senior management. Required qualifications include 9+ years as a software engineer, data engineer, or data scientist; expert Python; intermediate Rust or Go; experience with containerization, event streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, Zenoh), tactical data standardization, and data pipeline deployment. Successful candidates will collaborate with ML engineers, systems engineers, and field teams to ensure high-quality data flow and operational performance.