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Lead Delivery Engineer
Virtualitics, Inc · District of Columbia, United States
About The Role
Lead Delivery Engineer (Secret Cleared, DMV)
About Virtualitics
- Virtualitics is a fast-growing, Caltech-born defense tech company (~120 people) dedicated to reversing
- the decline in military readiness. Virtualitics builds AI-native readiness intelligence for the US and allied
- nations’ defense sector. Our IRO application layer and Virtualitics AI Platform (VAIP) transform how
- defense organizations act on maintenance, logistics, and global force management data. Our team is
- actively refining agentic workflows, composable AI agents, and generative interfaces to replace static
- dashboards with dynamic, conversational intelligence.
What You Will Do
- ●Lead technical decision-making across project and platform delivery.
- ●Architect robust, scalable applications using sound engineering principles, managing the
- complete data lifecycle from acquisition to model inference and postprocessing.
- ●Tackle runtime performance and optimize data access patterns for highly responsive applications.
- ●Craft and manage dynamic dashboards using the Virtualitics AI Platform to transform complex
- data into intuitive visuals.
- ●Collaborate across the delivery team (e.g. Product, Customer Success, DevOps, and QA) to align
- engineering deliverables with strategic customer commitments.
- ●Drive execution of the product roadmap by removing bottlenecks, mitigating risks, and ensuring
- on-time delivery of key milestones.
- ●Act as the primary technical escalation point to resolve delivery challenges and facilitate rapid
- trade-off decisions.
Core Requirements
- ●Clearance & Location:Must hold at least a U.S. Secretsecurity clearance and be willing to
- upgrade to a TS/SCI if needed. Must be willing and able to go onsite to the Mark Center up to and
- including 5 days a week.
- ●Engineering Fundamentals:A degree in Computer Scienceor related field, or 5+ years of
- software engineering experience. We target candidates with a strong background in software
- engineering and production deployment, rather than strictly research-oriented backgrounds.
- ●AI & Systems:A proven track record of deploying softwareinto production environments. Has
- shipped production-grade AI / agentic systems.
- ●Full Stack & DevSecOps:Understands full stack softwaredevelopment, DevSecOps, and AI
- systems holistically. Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Git.
- ●Data Ecosystem:Proficiency in Python with a solidunderstanding of the Python Data Stack
- (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Matplotlib, etc.). Experience working with a wide variety of
- data (both structured and unstructured) from different sources.
- ●Culture & Values:Embody Virtualitics core valuesby bringing a positive attitude, fostering a
- highly collaborative environment, and always being ready to "lean in" to tackle complex
- challenges alongside the team.
Preferred Qualifications (Pluses)
- ●Has contributed to building engineering excellence and has top-tier engineering experience.
- ●Experience with big data technologies and frameworks (Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).
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