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Telesis is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) advancing missile defense, systems engineering, AI, and aerospace design - on our own programs and in support of our partners. Headquartered in Northern Virginia with operations in Huntsville, Alabama, our people work directly with customers who know their names, on problems that matter, with leadership still in the technical fight. Small team, high trust, no bureaucracy - real responsibility, cleared work that challenges you, and a stake in what you help create.

Requisition #: TLS-26-039 | Clearance: Active DoD Secret (US citizenship required) | Level: Principal | Experience: 12+ years | Education: Master's | Work site: Redstone Arsenal – Huntsville, AL (on-site)

What you'll do:

• Provide technical and engineering analysis to support development of on-demand and cloud-based software for system-of-systems development, integration, and testing

Required qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance

• Master's degree in a STEM field with 12+ years working on missile-defense-related or other complex, large DoD programs/projects

• Design, development, and management of software libraries and cloud-based software architectures and requirements

• Experience in hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) and cloud-based testing to support software development and delivery

• Experience in management and review of application programming interfaces (APIs), interface control documents (ICDs), and enabling software used in cloud-based and HWIL environments

• Experience in artificial intelligence development and tooling and agentic operations

• Ability to work independently, as a team member, or leading teams/tasks, applying engineering rigor to solve engineering/scientific problems

Preferred qualifications:

• Cloud & containerization — practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and migrating legacy enterprise applications to cloud-native architectures

• Agile & DevSecOps — strong working knowledge of Agile and Lean software development within a secure DevSecOps framework

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform, Ansible for reproducible, auditable, secure cloud environments

• Modern configuration management and version control (e.g., Git) to enforce policy-as-code, baseline management, and compliance

• Top Secret clearance or the ability to qualify for one