Senior Software Engineer, Modern Intelligence

• This role requires someone who is capable of getting a DoD security clearance
• Has led a team of 3+ junior engineers on projects that have spanned multiple quarters
• Experience coaching/mentoring junior engineers on topics such as code quality, version control best practices, testing, and other general software engineering skills (as well as be an expert on these topics themselves)
• Experience writing and reviewing design documents
• Strong organizational, planning, and communication skills
• Must be capable of getting a security clearance

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Cutlass software team
• We are looking for someone who is an outstanding and productive coder, butalso has strong design and leadership skills
• They should be able to take high level requirements from their leaders, refine them, put together a design document, get their document appropriately reviewed, plan, and then lead the execution of those plans with minimal oversight from their leaders
• They should be able to provide an effective interface between their team, other teams, and their leaders both on the technical side as well as on the business side
• As the Cutlass Software Lead you will work alongside our Director of Engineering, the Machine Learning Lead, and the Data Science Lead to set the direction for Cutlass as a whole
• You will have tremendous influence over our tech stack and architecture, but also the future engineering culture at Modern, as well as the future of Modern as a company
• We are gathering the most ambitious AI researchers, software engineers, and mission leaders in defense because we believe defense is the future of defense, and defense is the future of AI