Radiance is seeking a Senior Software & Systems Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of Geospatial evaluation software. This initiative aims to build a scalable, repeatable, and trustworthy Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) framework for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) commercial and R&D GEOINT products (including imagery, geospatial data, 3D GEOINT, and mapping products).
In this role, you will transition manual, large-scale evaluation efforts into an automated, centralized enterprise system. You will design data pipelines, build a modern front-end visualization toolbox, and deploy secure software across NGA's unclassified, Secret, and TS/SCI networks.
Salary : $150K-175KKey Responsibilities- System Architecture & Design: Lead the architectural design of the GeoSURE system, ensuring scalability, repeatability, and compliance with DoD/IC standards.
- Pipeline Development: Build and optimize robust, automated pipelines for:
- GEOINT Data Ingestion: Integrating diverse data sources such as GRiD, NCL, and GEGD.
- IV&V Metrics Ingest: Creating a unified pipeline to ingest, validate, and assess data quality, accuracy, and integrity.
- Data Outputs & Storage: Designing secure, efficient storage architectures optimized for metadata tagging, fast retrieval, and long-term archival.
- UI & Toolbox Development: Develop the GeoSURE Toolbox, an intuitive, user-centric front-end interface featuring modern visualization tools, 3D/4D rendering, and advanced geospatial/temporal analysis capabilities.
- Secure DevSecOps Deployment: Establish automated scripts and configuration processes to deploy the GeoSURE baseline and its enhancements to NGA's Research Lab Environment (RLE) and Common Operations Release Environment (CORE).
- Security Compliance: Ensure all software packages adhere to Software Assurance and Protection (SWAP) requirements, including rigorous code scanning, vulnerability mitigation, and obtaining authorization to operate (ATO) on IC networks.
Required Qualifications - Security Clearance: Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
- Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering and systems architecture experience, preferably supporting NGA or the broader Intelligence Community (IC).
- Geospatial Expertise: Proven experience working with GEOINT products (imagery, vector data, 3D tiles, or mapping products) and geospatial libraries (e.g., GDAL, PDAL, Leaflet, Cesium, or Esri APIs).
- Backend & Pipeline Engineering: Strong proficiency in languages like Python, Go, or Java, with experience building ETL/data ingestion pipelines and integrating with enterprise databases.
- Front-End Development: Experience building modern, interactive web applications (React, Vue, or Angular) to support data visualization and user workflows.
- DevSecOps & Cloud: Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deploying software within secure AWS/C2S cloud environments.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
Preferred Qualifications - Direct experience with NGA systems and data repositories (GRiD, NSG Consolidated Library (NCL), or Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (GEGD))
- Familiarity with NGA's Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) and RLE deployment frameworks.
- Experience navigating the SWAP (Software Assurance and Protection) approval process and IC security compliance.
- Experience with advanced geospatial analysis, 3D/4D data rendering, or time-series analysis.
