Applied AI Engineer

The role

You will develop, integrate, test, and maintain software supporting advanced analytics, machine learning, and intelligence workflows. The role focuses on RF sensing, waveform generation, communications, and networking systems.

What you will do

• Implement, test, debug, and maintain software components, services, APIs, and tools.
• Deliver features, modules, and integrations from defined requirements and designs.
• Participate in unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
• Support integration of software with RF/sensor data, AI/ML models, and communications services.
• Use version control, code review, automated testing, and secure coding practices.
• Collaborate with software engineers, systems engineers, and researchers to resolve technical issues.
• Identify and implement improvements to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Build familiarity with AI/ML, RF sensing, Open RAN, and edge AI.

Required qualifications

• MS, or BS with 2 years of relevant experience in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret or Top Secret security clearance
• U.S. citizenship is needed by the U.S government
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, C++, Java, Go, or similar languages
• Experience applying AI/ML techniques and tools to solve technical problems involving sensor, time-series, RF, communications, or other non-textual data
• Experience developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software
• Familiarity with object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, software design patterns, and version-control systems such as Git
• Familiarity with unit testing, debugging, documentation, code review, CI/CD, containers, and secure software-development practices
• Ability to work effectively on a technical team

Nice to have

• Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with digital signal processing, software-defined radios, RF sensing, wireless communications, or PHY/MAC processing
• Familiarity with 5G/6G, Open RAN, or AI-RAN architectures and deployment of AI/ML models to edge or hardware-accelerated platforms
• Experience developing or testing high-throughput, latency-sensitive software for RF sensing, PHY, MAC, scheduling, or radio-resource management
• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Linux, cloud services, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, or infrastructure automation
• Experience developing REST APIs, backend services, web applications, dashboards, or data-processing services
• Familiarity with message queues, stream processing, distributed computing, microservices, or real-time analytics pipelines
• Experience using LLM-enabled development tools, such as Cursor or Codex
• Experience supporting DoW, IC, or other U.S. Government customers

About the company

STR is a technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. They focus on cyber, next generation sensors, communications, and artificial intelligence algorithms.