D425 Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Entry-Level Engineer

Overview

Department 425, Electrical Systems Embedded Software Engineering, is seeking a software developer or engineer with experience in artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). This individual will join a team of engineers that apply software and computer engineering skills to specify, design, develop, integrate, and test software for US Navy Nuclear Submarines. The ideal candidate will have a range of data integration, data visualization, big data and programming skills and an eagerness to solve problems. 

Specific responsibilities may include AI/ML in addition to supporting the development of shipboard software: 

• Analysis of system-level requirements
• Development of software and interface requirements
• Detailed design of software components that satisfy the above requirements and integration of hardware/software
• Development of unit testing
• Support to verification and validation testing of performance and operational requirements
• Troubleshoot and enhance existing software to fix defects, support new or changing hardware/requirements, or enhance features and performance
• Create and maintain formal requirements and design documentation
• Support development of system prototypes for research and development projects
• Wrangling, preprocessing and manipulating data for use in ML algorithms
• Design, develop, test and deploy AI models

Our team members exemplify Electric Boat’s core values:

• Value each other
• Behave with integrity and purpose
• Commit to excellence

A cognizant engineer at Electric Boat:

• Ensures alignment with EB's purpose, vision, and values in all they do.
• Maintains complete and total ownership of their assigned work (quality, cost, and schedule performance).
• Understands that their signature signifies ownership and responsibility.
• Speaks up and stops any work that is not being conducted in accordance with standards.
• Develops the broad and deep knowledge needed for their role and understands how their work fits into the larger whole.
• Keeps developing their skills, is aware of the limits of their knowledge, and seeks input from mentors and experts.
• Commits to the success of their team, not just their personal success.
• Maintains detailed, well-organized records of their work.
• Identifies and implements improvement ideas as a routine part of their work.
• Effectively communicates technical and programmatic information to their team, management, and stakeholders.
• Continually assesses risk throughout a project and develops mitigation plans production.

Electric Boat offers Flexible Work Arrangements that allows for some work to be performed remotely and at home. This is limited in this position due to the environment required for most software development.  Please ask for details to understand the extent to which it can be supported.

Qualifications

Required:

• A Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Physics.
• 0-3 years of software development or AI/ML experience
• Proficiency in a high level, object oriented language (e.g. C++, Java, Microsoft .NET, Python, etc.)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US DoD Security Clearance.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning.
• Experience in requirements analysis and hardware/software design, software code and unit test, hardware/software integration, and software test.
• Knowledge or experience with secure coding (C++ or Java) standards
• Familiarity with requirement management software (IBM DOORS).
• Experience with software unit testing (e.g. JUnit, XUnit, Google Test, etc.) tools and methodology
• Demonstrated knowledge of software lifecycle methodologies (Waterfall and Agile)
• Demonstrated knowledge of software analysis and design (e.g. UML, diagram, data flow, etc.)
• Experience in embedded software development, safety critical software development, control system development, and/or experience performing software safety analysis.
• Familiarity with a source control tool (e.g. Git, SVN, GitLab, CVS, MS Teams, etc.)
• Experience with Linux real-time operating systems
• Experience working with large, complex datasets
• Data preparation and corpus filtering (with PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Proven experience in developing and deploying AI models using relevant frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc.) and their AI services
• US Navy, DoD contractor, or similar experience with military customers

Skills

• Ability to follow and enforce processes and procedures
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills

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