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Staff Engineer, GenAI Tooling & DevEx (R5469)

Washington, DC💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-27

Core

Design, develop, and maintain GenAI tooling and automation layers to accelerate software engineering velocity for robotics and autonomy teams.

Role type

Staff Engineer, GenAI Tooling & Developer Experience

Builds

GenAI-enabled developer tools, automation, and integration layers for C++, Python, and Node.js projects

Domain

Defense technology, robotics, autonomy software, secure cloud environments

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

GenAI-assisted development, LLM-powered tooling, scripting (Bash, Python), containerization (Docker, Nix), cloud deployment (Azure Gov Cloud, AWS), secure software development, secret management, identity providers (Active Directory, Entra ID)

Preferred skills

Enterprise CI/CD systems, CUI and ITAR environments, LLM tuning, custom LLM deployment

Technologies

GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Python, Bash, Docker, Nix, Azure Gov Cloud, AWS, Active Directory, Entra ID

Responsibilities

Design and maintain GenAI-enabled developer tools; Partner with robotics engineers to convert high-friction workflows into secure GenAI-assisted tooling; Extend custom GenAI harness with secure LLM routing and audited execution paths; Build integrations across GitLab, Jira, and Confluence; Improve build, test, and developer-environment workflows; Support engineers adopting GenAI tooling through documentation and troubleshooting

Seniority

Staff, high-leverage IC with scaling impact

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