AI-Native Software Engineer

Job description

About The Role: Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT), a leading defense technology company, is seeking a AI-Native Software Engineer to be part of our Warfare Systems team and based out of our Arlington, VA location. The AI-Native Software Engineer develops software in an AI-augmented engineering environment where generative AI tools are used throughout the software lifecycle — including requirements analysis, architecture design, code generation, test creation, debugging, documentation, and system analysis. This engineer will help establish and champion AI-accelerated development practices across engineering teams, demonstrating how generative AI can dramatically increase engineering velocity while maintaining high reliability, security, and mission assurance standards required for defense systems. The engineer will work within multidisciplinary teams to accelerate delivery, enhance reliability, and operationalize autonomous and intelligent behaviors across complex DoW systems and is ideal for engineers who actively experiment with new AI tools and enjoy discovering faster and more effective ways to build software. The Warfare Systems business area is one of six mission critical...