SW Engineer_NASA_EAST - Military veterans preferred

Description

SAIC is looking for a SW Engineer for our NASA EAST contract in Huntsville, AL.

Would you like helping NASA connect with their huge volume of structured and unstructured data? Are you interested in joining a smart, innovative team in an exploratory and fun environment? Do you enjoy coding, but also like working with engineers to solve their business problems? Do you thrive on the challenge and variety that comes with of rapid and agile projects across multiple customers? Do you have a strong willingness to learn?

NASA Knowledge Management Profile

NASA’s Knowledge Management suit powers the Information-Driven environment. NASA realizes that being data-driven isn’t enough, but to continue to explore new frontiers they must capitalize on the value buried away in the huge volume of their unstructured information (text) in addition to structured data.  NASA’s Knowledge Management suit enables information-driven operations by providing a Cognitive Search and Analytics platform that brings together all enterprise information assets and intelligently serves up the most pertinent information and insights regardless of content, source system, or format. We do this through a state-of-the-art engine that applies natural language processing, machine learning, and data modeling to make sense of the vast and rapidly growing content in NASA and external to NASA.

NASA Knowledge Management Profile:

The Solution Engineer will become a technical expert in NASA’s Knowledge Management software focused on implementing the platform and executing rapid and agile projects that delivers advanced knowledge management capability tuned for each of NASA’s community of practice. They will be comfortable with code, complex data sources, and technical nuances of software and hardware. Solution Engineers will help customize agile projects to meet specific requirements, such as custom data visuals or connection to novel data sources and formats.The Engineer will receive training on NASA’s Sinequa, Alteryx, and Tableau software platform, advanced technology (Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Modeling) and tools (Spark, TensorFlow).

Job Duties:

• Deliver on the technical requirements and success criteria for PoCs by working with the customer and with Sinequa, Alteryx, and Tableau’s Sales Engineers to understand the customer’s needs
• Give presentations and answer detailed questions on the technical aspects of Sinequa, Alteryx, and Tableau – architecture, operation, and capabilities
• Plan and help coordinate staff efforts, coach Solution Engineers, define best practices and promote knowledge sharing to grow the team’s ability
• Configure the Sinequa, Alteryx, or Tableau software to connect to data sources, index and analyze documents, optimize searches, and present results to business users

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and two (2) years or more experience; Masters and 0 years related experience
• Years of experience accepted in Lieu of degree.

• Experience with web application development and technologies (such as HTML, CSS, Javascript) and programming with a modern language (such as .NET, C#, Java)
• Experience in using/developing complex enterprise platforms and applications
• Deep understanding of the Microsoft Windows operating system and high proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
• Experience working in technical areas including structured data, analytics, SQL
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (CS/IS/IT, engineering)
• LIASON: Primarily internal company contacts. Infrequent inter-organizational andoutside customer contacts on routine matters.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust