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Defense Unicorns
📍 Colorado• $148.8K – $201.3K/yr
6 days ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced. This role is responsible for creating and owning persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, including Fleet Management, Edge Management, and system-level components. These environments power internal dogfooding, UX validation, and customer demos, reducing reliance on ad-hoc local setups and enabling scalable, repeatable and delightful product experiences. Today, engineers are frequently pulled into demo setup and environment management of the suite of products, creating context switching and slowing product delivery. This role exists to solve that problem by establishing reliable, self-service environments and tighter system integration, allowing engineering teams to focus on building product capabilities while improving overall product quality and usability. You will operate at the intersection of platform engineering and product development, ensuring that the systems we build can be continuously exercised, validated, and experienced in real-world conditions. You will be responsible for advocating for a delightful customer product experience as the integrator of the product portfolio. What You'll Work On: Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure Supporting pathw

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Defense Unicorns
📍 Minnesota, United States• Remote• $148.8K – $201.3K/yr
6 days ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: We are seeking a talented and motivated Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional guidance, support, and enablement focused on our Unicorn Delivery Service projects and capabilities. You will work closely with technical groups driving towards mission impact, providing technical expertise, proactive assistance, and strategic insights to maximize mission impact. This role is instrumental in ensuring a seamless and successful customer experience throughout the initial engagement and transition to longer-term execution. Responsibilities Act as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for customers and their technical needs, challenges, and goals. Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and support of customer engagements. Understand and articulate the technical competency and impact of engineers on the team. Understand Defense Unicorns' products and philosophy. Assist the team in discovery and framing efforts across the industry. Identify and implement process improvements to increase team efficiency and effectiveness. Assist with demonstration and content creation on products. Manage the "proof of concept" work. Build and maintain continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Build, deploy, test, and troubleshoot UDS Bundles, Zarf packages, and UDS packages. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for brainstorming, research, and innovative growth strategies. Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify growth opportunities. Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to growth hacking and user acquisition. Experiment with new tools, techniques, and technologies to improve growth outcomes. The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsib

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OpenAI
📍 Washington• Full-time• Remote• $216K – $240K/yr
16 days ago

About the team OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields—technology, AI, government contracting, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation—who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company. If you are passionate about helping bring cutting-edge AI technology to the public sector while navigating complex legal and regulatory landscapes, you’ll thrive here. About the role We’re seeking a Legal Contracts Manager to support OpenAI for Government’s growing public sector business. This role will manage a wide range of contracting activities with U.S. federal, state, and local government customers and partners. This role will partner closely with our legal, go-to-market, capture/proposals, and other teams to negotiate agreements, administer existing contracts, establish compliance mechanisms, and generally support the full lifecycle of contract performance. This role requires deep familiarity with government contracting, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to operate with speed and sound judgment in a fast-moving environment. This position reports to our Associate General Counsel, Head of Public Sector Legal and is based in Washington D.C. This role will: Manage the full contract lifecycle for government agreements, including NDAs, services agreements, teaming agreements, subcontracts, and order forms. Negotiate contracts with federal, state, and local agencies and government integrators, balancing risk management with business objectives. Ensure ongoing compliance with contract requirements, including flow-down clauses, reporting obligations, and government-specific certifications (e.g., FAR/DFARS, FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171). Support contract pursuits and proposals , including review of RFP/RFQ terms, development of compliance matrices, and coordination of required representations and

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Defense Unicorns
📍 Springfield• $148.8K – $201.3K/yr
22 days ago

Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior Data Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem. This role will focus on making enterprise data usable, discoverable, governed, and accessible to AI models, agents, and mission applications. The engineer will work across data ingestion, transformation, storage, metadata, APIs, search, vector and graph technologies, and the interfaces between the data layer and AI workloads. The ideal candidate is a hands-on data engineer who can operate across the full data lifecycle and understands that data availability and integration are often the primary blockers to delivering AI capabilities. They should be comfortable entering an evolving architecture, learning unfamiliar systems quickly, working directly with commercial technology partners, and solving difficult problems involving data quality, lineage, access, performance, and security. This is not a traditional analytics or business intelligence role. The focus is on building the data foundations and repeatable patterns that allow AI and agentic capabilities to access trusted data and move from prototype to production in secure and classified environments. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and deliver data for AI models, agents, and mission applications. Integrate structured and unstructured data sources into enterprise data services, including relational, document, vector, and graph-oriented technologies. Work closely with AI/agent engineers to make data discoverable and usable for RAG, semantic search, model context, and tool-enabled agent workflows. Develop repeatable data ingestion and transformation patterns using Python, SQL, APIs, event-driven architectures, and workflow/orchestration technologies. Establish data quality, validation, provenance, lineage, and metadata practices so downstream users and AI systems can t

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Defense Unicorns
📍 Minnesota, United States• Remote• $148.8K – $201.3K/yr
29 days ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a team developing AI applications that help users understand and act on complex Naval engineering records. Using a Forward Deployed Engineering model, our team works closely with mission users to understand how they work, identify friction in their daily tasks, and deliver functional improvements based on rapid feedback. You will serve as the team’s primary platform engineering owner, responsible for the systems and processes that move our applications from source code into secure, production-ready environments. Your work will span release workflows, CI/CD pipelines, container images, Kubernetes configurations, cloud infrastructure, application deployments, and production troubleshooting. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role. You will independently own significant platform work, make technical decisions across systems, anticipate risks and dependencies, and collaborate with application engineers and platform teams across the company. Responsibilities: In this position, you will: Own and improve end-to-end release workflows for the team’s AI applications, from building container images through creating production-ready release packages. Build and publish container images, address or document vulnerabilities, manage dependency updates, and maintain release artifacts. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitHub runners, and GitLab workflows. Configure, deploy, scale, and maintain production applications running in Kubernetes. Maintain Zarf packages, Kubernetes configurations, and other declarative deployment artifacts. Support the deployment and troubleshooting of AI and GPU-enabled workloads. Investigate data-ingestion and production issues across application code, infrastructure, system access, and deployment configuration. Partner with application engineers an

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Defense Unicorns
📍 United States• Remote
1mo ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description We are seeking a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join our team. Possessing strong proficiency with Kubernetes, the ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our platform, demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to guide junior engineers. As a Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns who are focused on advancing freedom and independence globally. Our teams work on various different technical baselines depending on specific engagements. We focus our Products on the Platform layer, but to deliver for our Heroes, we also work IaC automation, security, and implementation. Responsibilities You will help us automate and build a runtime Production Environment and serve as a link between the Applications, either custom development, COTS, or OSS, and that environment, advocating best practices and facilitating communication between the application teams and platform teams. In this position, you will be expected to: Validate Solutions/Implementations: Ensure that solutions and implementations align with the outlined tasks and business requirements. Conduct thorough validations to maintain the integrity and efficiency of the platform. Independently Problem Solve: Demonstrate the ability to identify and solve business problems independently. Develop small components to address specific challenges without relying on explicit architecture diagrams. Understand Medium-Level Tasking: Comprehend how medium-level tasks contribute to the achievement of overall goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate various components into a cohesive and functional platform. Estimate Time and Effort: Provide accurate time and effort estimates for medium-sized tasks. Assist in project planning and resource allocation based o

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Defense Unicorns
📍 San Antonio• $123.3K – $166.8K/yr
1mo ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. THIS POSITION IS ONSITE LOCATED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO APPLY. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the deployment and maintenance of UDS within a secure, bare-metal environment. You will serve as a bridge between application teams and the platform, advocating best practices and helping ensure that the platform is reliable, secure, and scalable. The ideal candidate is a strong problem-solver with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, bare-metal or on-premises infrastructure, and deploying applications onto Kubernetes-based platforms. Responsibilities: The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise. Support the architecture, deployment, configuration, and testing of bare-metal infrastructure, including GPU compute, storage, and networking Deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot UDS and Kubernetes-based platform services Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration to enable consistent, repeatable deployments Support secure software delivery, including container images, registries, packages, and deployment artifacts Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve deployment challenges Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve platform challenges Travel Expectations/Requirements: 15-25% Preferred Experience and Qualifications: Active Secret clearance required. Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes or containerized platforms in bare-metal or on

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Defense Unicorns
📍 San Antonio• $123.3K – $166.8K/yr
1mo ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the deployment and maintenance of UDS within a secure, bare-metal environment. You will serve as a bridge between application teams and the platform, advocating best practices and helping ensure that the platform is reliable, secure, and scalable. The ideal candidate is a strong problem-solver with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, bare-metal or on-premises infrastructure, and deploying applications onto Kubernetes-based platforms. Responsibilities: The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise. Support the architecture, deployment, configuration, and testing of bare-metal infrastructure, including GPU compute, storage, and networking Deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot UDS and Kubernetes-based platform services Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration to enable consistent, repeatable deployments Support secure software delivery, including container images, registries, packages, and deployment artifacts Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve deployment challenges Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve platform challenges Travel Expectations/Requirements: 10%-15% Preferred Experience and Qualifications: Active Secret/Top Secret Security Clearance Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes or containerized platforms in bare-metal or on-premises environments (deploying, managing, and troubleshooting clusters and workloads) Experience wi

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Defense Unicorns
📍 United States• Remote• $148.8K – $201.3K/yr
1mo ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Role Description We are seeking a talented Sr. Platform Engineer to join the Navy Delivery team. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, application development, DevOps, and application security. The ideal candidate will help application development teams successfully integrate, package, secure, deploy, and operate their software on the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) and Kubernetes-based environments. The successful candidate will understand both sides of the application/platform boundary. They should be comfortable working with application source code, APIs, containers, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes resources, Helm charts, and production runtime concerns. They will collaborate directly with application teams to understand how their software is built and operated, translate those needs into repeatable deployment artifacts and processes, and identify issues across application and platform layers. Experience developing or supporting modern web applications and APIs is particularly valuable. Current application teams use technologies including React, Vue, NGINX-hosted static assets, C#/.NET services, and Python/FastAPI services. Direct experience with every technology is not expected; we are looking for engineers who can quickly understand unfamiliar application architectures and help teams adapt them for secure, reliable deployment. As a Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns focused on advancing freedom and independence globally. Our teams work across different technical baselines depending on the engagement. Although our products primarily operate at the platform layer, delivering successful outcomes for our Heroes also requires us to work closely with application teams on CI/CD components, runner deployments and maintenance, UDS packaging, Kubernetes and Helm configuration, application observability, security controls, and process automation. Res

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Defense Unicorns
📍 Minnesota, United States• Remote• $145K – $185K/yr
2mo ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. This position offers a base salary of $145,000–$185,000. (Total on-target earnings of $290,000–$370,000.) Role Description The Mission Director is a quota-carrying, full-lifecycle business owner responsible for identifying, shaping, closing, and executing new business within PAE Mission Systems/ Aviation. We are seeking Mission Directors across two areas of focus: Mission Systems: PAE Mission Systems, NAVWAR, Naval C4ISR, and related Navy mission systems, including shipboard and maritime operational environments. Naval Aviation: PAE Aviation, NAVAIR, and Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs and operational environments. You will build trusted relationships with Mission Heroes (our customers), identify meaningful problems, shape solutions using Defense Unicorns products, and lead opportunities from initial discovery through contract award. Once awarded, you will remain accountable for the contract throughout its lifecycle, including cost, schedule, performance, staffing, margin, and customer satisfaction. This role is designed for someone who wants broad ownership. As the portfolio grows in size and complexity, Mission Directors will increasingly lead through program managers and delivery leaders while retaining accountability for portfolio outcomes. Responsibilities The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive, and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who can adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise. 1. Build the Business Identify and develop net-new opportunities within your assigned Navy mission area, building trusted relationships with Mission Heroes and key stakeholders. Own a quota and grow a diversified portfolio of business. 2. Shape and Close Opportunities Define customer problems, scope, and desired outcomes to shape solutions using Defense Unicorns products an

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Defense Unicorns
📍 Minnesota, United States• Remote• $145K – $185K/yr
2mo ago

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. This position offers a base salary of $145,000–$185,000. (Total on-target earnings of $290,000–$370,000.) Role Description The Mission Director is a quota-carrying, full-lifecycle business owner responsible for identifying, shaping, closing, and executing new business within PAE Mission Systems/ Aviation. We are seeking Mission Directors across two areas of focus: Mission Systems: PAE Mission Systems, NAVWAR, Naval C4ISR, and related Navy mission systems, including shipboard and maritime operational environments. Naval Aviation: PAE Aviation, NAVAIR, and Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs and operational environments. You will build trusted relationships with Mission Heroes (our customers), identify meaningful problems, shape solutions using Defense Unicorns products, and lead opportunities from initial discovery through contract award. Once awarded, you will remain accountable for the contract throughout its lifecycle, including cost, schedule, performance, staffing, margin, and customer satisfaction. This role is designed for someone who wants broad ownership. As the portfolio grows in size and complexity, Mission Directors will increasingly lead through program managers and delivery leaders while retaining accountability for portfolio outcomes. Responsibilities The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive, and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who can adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise. 1. Build the Business Identify and develop net-new opportunities within your assigned Navy mission area, building trusted relationships with Mission Heroes and key stakeholders. Own a quota and grow a diversified portfolio of business. 2. Shape and Close Opportunities Define customer problems, scope, and desired outcomes to shape solutions using Defense Unicorns products an

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