Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT)

Systems Engineer

• Design, implement, and test complex software in C, C++, Python, JavaScript, and Java within various development environments
• Analyze legacy monolithic software programs, recompile them, and incrementally refactor them using brownfield and greenfield methodologies
• Assess and deconstruct Navy tactical system code for Surface Navy Combat systems
• Explore and prototype next-generation solutions using AI/ML, distributed processing, and modeling
• Interact with customers to elicit requirements and document agreements
• Present project cost, schedule, and technical progress to organization leadership
• Develop software architecture, including hardware and software interfaces between components
• Assist in developing user, functional, and technical requirements for tactical systems
• Participate in and provide feedback for design and code/peer reviews
• Integrate individual software components into complex software environments
• Support test and integration activities at IDT labs and government Land Based Test Sites (LBTS)

Tactical Systems Engineer

• Assist and lead the testing team for critical submarine platforms, specifically focusing on the AN/BYG-1 Combat Control System and Electronic Warfare (EW) AN/BLQ-10.
• Partner with and assist the installation team to execute system installs at Submarine Learning Centers (SLC) across US.
• Work directly with the fleet to capture product requirements, determine operational needs, and coordinate system installation parameters.
• Conduct thorough system analysis and troubleshooting to resolve complex platform issues. Remote and onsite SLC support for training events.
• Prepare and review Installation Design Plans, Diagram, Test procedures, user manual to support Modernization Training Program.

Full-stack Engineer

• System Architecture & Maintenance: Develop, customize, and maintain software applications and system images on Linux platforms. This requires deep knowledge of Linux internals, including the boot process, system initialization, kernel operations, bootloaders, and kernel modules.
• Hyperconverged Cloud Infrastructure: Run, manage, and debug complex, enterprise-level hyperconverged ecosystem, ensuring high availability, performance, and seamless resource scaling.
• Enterprise Virtualization Mastery: Implement and manage advanced virtualization technologies. This goes far beyond running a guest VM; you will architect, deploy, and troubleshoot large-scale, highly available bare-metal supporting vital enterprise infrastructure.
• Network Design: Architect and maintain virtual and physical networking infrastructure, including TCP/IP, DNS, switching, routing, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Deep-Dive Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex software and hardware issues across the enterprise infrastructure, demonstrating a firm grasp of systemic debugging.
• Cybersecurity Integration: Ensure robust security measures and compliance frameworks are baked into all systems and applications.
• Agile Collaboration: Translate complex technical approaches into clear block diagrams, written designs, and actionable steps for cross-functional project teams.

Linux System Developer

AI Engineer

• Design and Build AI Solutions for On-Prem systems in Air-Gapped environment: Design and implement end-to-end agentic AI systems that support planning, reasoning, tool use, and multi-step execution in real-world environments. Build modular, testable components that move from prototype to operational capability.
• Integrate Models and Tools for On-Prem systems in Air-Gapped environment: Develop integrations across LLMs, APIs, data sources, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces to enable intelligent agents to interact with external systems, retrieve context, and take action safely and reliably.
• Develop Retrieval Pipelines for On-Prem systems in Air-Gapped environment: Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines that connect models to live knowledge sources, structured data, and enterprise content to improve factual grounding, contextual relevance, and response quality.
• Engineer Conversational and Agentic Interfaces for On-Prem systems in Air-Gapped environment: Create conversational systems and intelligent agents with memory, contextual awareness, adaptive decision-making, and support for multi-turn user and system interactions.
• Implement and Evaluate AI Workflows for On-Prem systems in Air-Gapped environment: Translate technical objectives into working pipelines, run experiments, evaluate agent behavior, and iterate on prompts, orchestration logic, retrieval quality, and system performance to improve reliability and usability.
• Architect local infrastructure to size, config, and optimize local CPU/GPU workloads, utilizing quantization techniques to maximize throughput, etc.
• Orchestrate disconnected environments, design and maintain offline model update pipelines, local package mirrors, etc.
• Scope and Define Requirements: Gather, document, and validate technical and functional requirements from project artifacts, stakeholders, and mission needs to ensure feasibility, completeness, and alignment with operational goals.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with engineers, technical leads, and mission stakeholders to integrate AI capabilities into broader software and system architectures. Participate in technical reviews, design discussions, and delivery planning.
• Support Technical Quality: Contribute to testing, debugging, and performance optimization of AI-enabled applications, including edge cases involving context management, retrieval failures, tool execution, and orchestration logic.
• Learn and Apply Emerging Practices: Stay current on advances in LLMs, agent frameworks, orchestration methods, and applied AI engineering practices, and bring that knowledge into practical system design and implementation.
• Communicate Technical Work: Clearly document architectures, workflows, assumptions, and implementation decisions so that solutions are maintainable, explainable, and transferable across teams.

AI Implementation Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Manage formal and informal requirements to define, validate and control scope to complete all the deliverables within a project successfully
• Support conversion of internal customer requirements into a refined vision
• Lead a team to develop, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code software for automated deployment and configuration of a multi-site, multi-system microservice-based application, leveraging AI coding assistants to accelerate development.
• Lead the active operations work of deploying and maintaining multiple Kubernetes clusters in unclassified and classified (airgapped) environments, leveraging AI solutions to improve deployment and maintenance efficiency.
• Design and implement solutions that meet specific requirements using state-of-the-art data structures, algorithms, patterns, and tools
• Debug, identify root cause and fix software deployment/configuration issues
• Guide a team in the identification and application of emerging technologies and architectures including evaluation of cloud operations platforms such as cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of engineers working operational and development tasks while championing the use of AI to streamline the team’s workflow, incorporating AI-driven approaches to optimize automation and reduce the complexity of installations.
• Design, implement, and test software using multiple languages and technology stacks
• Develop software interfaces to communicate across various network protocols and messaging frameworks
• Integrate software components into complex software environments
• Communicate and work collaboratively with colleagues and lead engineers from other disciplines
• Maintains a focus on quality that produces deliverables that meet objectives and align needs, uses, and acceptance requirements set forth by relevant stakeholders
• Participate in and provide feedback in design and code reviews
• Develop software using secure coding practices
• Support test and integration activities in IDT labs, as well as on-site customer labs
• Assess, plan, identify, analyze, mitigate and control risks and opportunities
• Support preparation, tracking, and delivery of internal deliverables

Software Engineer – Deployment

Mechanical Engineer

• Design and develop mechanical solutions supporting computing infrastructure, networked systems, ruggedized hardware, and mission systems.
• Create and maintain detailed 3D CAD models, assemblies, and engineering drawings for system enclosures, racks, mounts, cooling solutions, and integrated hardware platforms.
• Perform thermal analyses, heat transfer studies, airflow evaluations, and cooling assessments for high-performance computing and electronic systems.
• Support system architecture development through the creation and interpretation of Unified Data Architecture (UDA) diagrams, interface control documents, data flow diagrams, and system integration artifacts.
• Collaborate with systems engineers to define hardware, infrastructure, environmental, and operational requirements.
• Participate in requirements decomposition, trade studies, system modeling, and architecture development activities.
• Support the integration of computing, networking, storage, and mission systems into customer environments.
• Analyze system performance, identify technical risks, and recommend engineering solutions to improve reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Support engineering reviews, integration events, testing activities, and customer demonstrations.
• Develop technical documentation, engineering reports, installation guides, and design packages.
• Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of integrated hardware and software solutions.

Mechanical Systems Engineer

Research Engineer

• Develop test/data algorithms for reducing instrumentation and data streams to meaningful quantification of system actions, behaviors, and outcomes
• Architect System-of-System solutions from IDT’s integration technologies to provide novel solutions to rapidly evolving problem spaces
• Evaluate customer/operational needs to define system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all functional and program interfaces
• Apply advanced systems/software technologies and principles to develop innovative solutions for in-service and next generation complex software systems
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to rapidly define, design, develop, integrate, and deploy tactical and test systems
• Perform analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Communicate directly with customer and users to understand need and drive cross-functional technical issues/challenges to closure

Advanced Concepts Engineer

• Develop test/data algorithms for reducing instrumentation and data streams to meaningful quantification of system actions, behaviors, and outcomes
• Evaluate customer/operational needs to define system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all functional and program interfaces
• Apply advanced systems/software technologies and principles to develop innovative solutions for in-service and next generation complex software systems
• Drive interdisciplinary teams to rapidly define, design, develop, integrate, and deploy tactical and test systems
• Analyze and decompose requirements, review software designs, generate test cases, test procedures, and test plans, and troubleshoot discrepancies to fulfill customer needs
• Perform analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Determine SysML model implementation of Systems Engineering designs
• Communicate directly with customer and users to understand need and drive cross-functional technical issues/challenges to closure

Senior Systems Architect

• Manage formal and informal requirements to define, validate and control scope to complete all the deliverables within a project successfully
• Support conversion of customer requirements into a refined vision
• Support development of user, functional, and technical requirements for software systems
• Design and implement solutions that meet specific requirements using state-of-the-art data structures, algorithms, patterns, and tools
• Explore and prototype next-generation solutions
• Design, implement, and test software using multiple languages and technology stacks
• Develop software interfaces to communicate across various network protocols and messaging frameworks
• Integrate software components into complex software environments
• Maintains a focus on quality that produces deliverables that meet objectives and align needs, uses, and acceptance requirements set forth by relevant stakeholders
• Participate in and provide feedback in design and code reviews
• Develop software using secure coding practices
• Support test and integration activities in IDT labs, as well as on-site customer labs
• Assess, plan, identify, analyze, mitigate and control risks and opportunities
• Support preparation, tracking, and delivery of contractual deliverables

Software Engineer

• Design, implement, and test complex software in C, C++, Python, JavaScript, and Java within various development environments.
• Analyze legacy monolithic software programs, recompiling them, and incrementally apply refactoring to modernize the software using the “brownfield” and “greenfield” methodologies.
• Technical assessment and deconstruction of Navy tactical system code for Surface Navy Combat systems.
• Explore and prototype next-generation solutions using artificial intelligence/machine learning, distributed processing, and modeling.
• Interact with customers to elicit requirements and document agreements.
• Present to organization leadership on project cost, schedule, and technical progress.
• Software architecture development including hardware and software interfaces between software components.
• Assist in developing user, functional, and technical requirements for tactical systems.
• Participate and provide feedback for design & code/peer reviews.
• Integrate individual software components into complex software environments.
• Support test and integration activities at IDT labs and government Land Based Test Sites (LBTS).

Senior Systems Engineer

• Manage formal and informal requirements to define, validate and control scope to complete all the deliverables within a project successfully
• Drive the conversion of customer requirements into a refined vision
• Oversee and lead the development of user, functional, and technical requirements for software systems
• Design and implement solutions that meet specific requirements using state-of-the-art data structures, algorithms, patterns, and tools
• Lead the exploration and prototyping of next-generation solutions
• Design, implement, and test software using multiple languages and technology stacks
• Develop software interfaces to communicate across various network protocols and messaging frameworks
• Integrate software components into complex software environments
• Maintains a focus on quality that produces deliverables that meet objectives and align needs, uses, and acceptance requirements set forth by relevant stakeholders
• Lead design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers
• Develop software using secure coding practices
• Lead test and integration activities in IDT labs, as well as on-site customer labs
• Assess, plan, identify, analyze, mitigate and control risks and opportunities
• Manage the preparation, tracking, and delivery of contractual deliverables

Tactical Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer

Linux System Developer

AI Implementation Engineer

Software Engineer – Deployment

Mechanical Systems Engineer

Advanced Concepts Engineer

Advanced Concepts Engineer

Senior Systems Architect

Senior Systems Architect

Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Software Engineer