People and Purpose. Not just paychecks.

Bitwise is a leading software and digital services company that provides mission-focused, transformative technology solutions to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Our team of engineers are driven by a sense of purpose, a thirst for technical excellence, and a culture of growth, wellness, and inclusion.
 

💡  About the Role

The CNO Discovery Analytics Team (DAT) is branching out to US Cyber
Command! This is a totally new adventure for our team. You will work directly with CNMF
operators and analysts to learn their mission. You will work directly with our six existing DATs to learn the ropes, get a feel for existing solutions, and be indoctrinated to our mission-focused,
fast-paced culture. You will work directly with our AI/ML team to get up-to-speed on their
infrastructure, analytics platform, LLM and RAG offerings, and analytics capabilities. Finally,
use your stellar development skills to mix and match and create some new things of your own
to have maximum impact and make an EXCELLENT first impression.

💪🏼  Required Skills and Experience

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Technical Experience:
  • Respond to software shortcomings reported by users of existing applications. Watch people use your tool, notice what could be better, and fix it without them asking!
  • Gather requirements and rapidly develop new prototype tools/solutions that help customers do their jobs more efficiently.
  • Start with vague requirements, identify and iterate with SMEs to build something special.
  • Understand the CNMF mission, collaborate with team members, gather user requirements, and automate workflows.
  •  Identify opportunities to leverage existing DAT and AIMASSIST capabilities for our new customer, successfully communicate with and integrate with those teams to apply them to this new mission. Implement features effectively across multiple code bases.
  •  Establish customer rapport, communication cadence, means of prioritization, and effectively capture and make visible your impact on the mission.
  •  Hone an effective, easy-to-use LLM and RAG experience that will be used by your immediate CNMF customer and many, many others.
  • A courageous personality unafraid to ask questions, get answers, and deliver.
  •  Excellent communication skills, motivated first and foremost by mission impact and seeing what you build be used.
  •  Passion for user experience and maintaining quality as your user base grows.
  •  Experience building amazing user interfaces (particularly with React and Next.JS, but knowledge of any modern UI library is highly valued!).
  • Knowledge of modern middleware frameworks (comfort using something along the lines of Express, Flask, Spring, FastAPI, etc.).
  • Comfort with basic computer administration including software installation, system configuration, and networking. Comfort with git and automated build pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.).
• Preferred Skills
  • Passion for observability (Elastic, APM, Grafana, etc.).
  • Experience integrating software with a Large Language Model (LLM).
  •  Experience with retrieval-agumented generation (RAG).
  •  Production-grade software development experience with Python.
  •  Service containerization and deployment with Docker and Kubernetes or Swarm.
  •  Experience building prototypes and understanding the value of frequent iterations and user feedback.
  •  Previous experience working with CNO, USCC, CNMF, or some form of cybersecurity- related past.
  • Experience with any of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Redis, Kafka, Nginx, AWS, HAProxy. Experience integrating open source models and technologies.
  •  Excellent Jira hygiene.
• Degree Requirements and Years Experience:
  • 7 years in place of B.S.
  • 3 years experience with a degree in a technical discipline
  • Don't quite meet these requirements? 🔓 Unlock your potential with our other open positions

😇  About You

We only hire candidates who have the mindset and ideals to truly make a difference in our company and for our customers' missions. We ask that you be able to:

• Work well in a small- to medium-sized team and contribute meaningful thought leadership — if not right away, over time
• Interact with our customers in a way that fosters confidence in your abilities and an absolute delight to have you on board
• Apply an attention to detail to your work, even if that means managing expectations and taking a little more time
• Contribute your ideas, your ideals, and your personality to improve our company, our products, and our culture
• Know and support our core values every single day

🙌  Working at Bitwise

When you come to work with us, you can expect to hop in on the ground floor of our company, contributing your ideas, helping make decisions, and bringing your unique vibe to our culture. You won't be on an island with us – we gather frequently outside of work hours, from team-builds to happy hours and all-hands meetings. Everyone contributes, everyone's heard, everyone has fun, and we're all the better for it.

Our Benefits:

• Top salaries because we're top performers
• 4 weeks PTO – 5 weeks after 5 years, 6 weeks after 10 years
• 11 paid federal holidays
• 2 emergency days for snow, etc.
• 24% 401k contribution via a 400% match on the first 6% from you. Don't utilize the full match? Unused matches come back to you as income. C'mon now!
• 3 excellent health plans, 2 dental plans, and a vision plan, with up to 70% of the premium covered for you and your dependents
• 100% covered life and disability insurances
• $5,000 annual education assistance
• Bonuses for obtained certifications, customer recognition, and just about anything else that makes us go "Hot Damn! 🔥". We hope to say that many times about you.

🔍  What to expect after applying

You'll get an automated email from us right away just to let you know we got your application. From there, we'll:

• Send over some additional materials about our company and benefits for you to review
• Schedule a video call with you to discuss your application, our company, and your place in it
• Put together a delightful offer package and record a video walkthrough of it for you
• Keep the party going through the onboarding process. Your transition to us will be joyful and easy.