Integration Engineer (TS/SCI)

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Maxar seeks an Integration Engineer with a software development background as a contributor in continually updating our cloud and on-prem infrastructure with the latest technology stacks, architectural best practices, and CI-strategies. Our team integrates several external components to create a platform for object detection and analysis in support of national security intelligence priorities for research and mission customers.
Note: US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance is mandatory for this position and required for consideration. Must be willing to submit to a CI Polygraph upon customer request.
Location: Herndon, VA
Job Profile Summary:

• Support a team in the lifecycle of externally developed components- through security, deployment, operation and refinement - for research and mission applications.
• Additionally, collaborate with other engineers to build a system to enable users to leverage the components in a systematic, timely, and reproducible way. Identifies needed resources for projects from initiation through delivery, assigns major project roles to staff members, and communicates to leadership team milestones, deliveries, and impediments effectively.
• Engage and collaborate with team members, other customer teams, and the government stakeholders to effectively communicate updates, challenges, and way forward.
• Understand and integrate partner-developed software packages in support of the common mission.
• Manage allocation, configuration, and utilization of hardware and virtualized hardware assets in collaboration with the customer's infrastructure team.
• Enable software and model development teams both in and outside of Maxar to reliably test, configure, and deploy services through CI/CD including the use of core AWS services.
• Monitor system performance and drive refinements to reduce complexity, increase reliability, and determine bottlenecks in an effort improve model production timelines throughout the research program. Troubleshoot and resolve issues within the pipeline stages.
• Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Advises as the engineering voice in a small team of integrators to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI and be willing and able to pass a CI polygraph.
• A Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience.
• Ideal candidate is self-motivated and works well in a team environment.
• Experience with source configuration management tools such as Git.
• CI & CD development experience with technologies like Jenkins or GitLab.
• Experience with Linux administration activities using the command line.
• Custom application deployments, configuration, and maintenance.
• Experience tracking and documenting work progress (ex. Agile).
• Experience with geospatial concepts such as remote sensing imagery, map projections, and vector data.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Security+ or comparable certification for privileged user access.
• Experience in machine learning model development and application.
• Experience with customer engagement; managing customer expectations and delivery timelines
• Experience with distributed processing methods and tools, such as REST APIs, microservices, AWS/EC2, Kubernetes, Docker, and Openshift.
• Experience with automated deployment technologies such as Cloud Formation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform.
• Experience with Python, Groovy, Node.js and Shell Script development.
• Experience with deep learning concepts and frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, or HuggingFace.
• Experience developing and deploying web services.
• Experience supporting software in a research environment.
• Experience in implementing workflows to support machine vision model development.

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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
The base pay for this position within California, Colorado, Hawaii, and the Washington, DC metropolitan area is:
$140,000.00 - $200,000.00
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
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