Location: Hybrid (2 days/week in Dunwoody, GA – Thursdays required) | Relocation Assistance Available | 100% Remote for exceptional candidates
Compensation: Up to $175,000 Base + 10% Annual Bonus
Clearance Requirement: US Citizenship required (Must be eligible to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance; active clearance is not required to start)
Why Partner With TRC Talent Solutions For This Role?
At TRC Talent Solutions, we specialize in connecting elite IT and Engineering professionals with career-defining opportunities. We are actively partnering with a highly agile, ~80-person technology company (with a heavy engineering hub of 50 right here in Atlanta) that builds mission-critical data management and edge computing software. Focused on planning and managing tactical networks for the defense and government sectors, their team is highly collaborative, fast-paced, and deeply rooted in the local tech community.
About the Role:
We are seeking a top-tier Staff or Senior Principal Engineer to sit at the absolute top of the food chain regarding development capability and architectural influence. This is a heavy product development role (not an integration role) focused on building out a new suite of tactical network products.
You will help define how GenAI is utilized across the software development lifecycle, ensuring our mission-critical platforms perform flawlessly under real-world, zero-failure conditions. You must thrive in a fast-changing environment and be able to pivot quickly as product needs evolve.
What You'll Do:
Serve as a major technical advisor on architecture decisions, code quality, and system integrity across an entire suite of products.
Review, correct, and harden AI-generated code for production use; detect hallucinations and structural flaws before they reach mission-critical tactical systems.
Lead large-scale system architecture across edge AI systems, data pipelines, control planes, and real-time operational platforms.
Architect distributed systems designed to perform reliably under the most demanding operational conditions (unreliable connectivity, edge compute).
Core Requirements:
Backend Expertise: Expert-level software engineering experience in Python, Go, OR Rust.
AI/GenAI Experience: Deep, hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, and model evaluation.
Architecture: Strong distributed systems background (event-driven architectures, fault tolerance, eventual consistency) and a proven ability to think in systems and end-to-end architecture.
Adaptability: High flexibility to pivot and thrive in a rapid-prototyping, fast-changing product environment.
Highly Preferred:
Strong proficiency in modern web development using React and/or TypeScript.
Edge AI or offline AI systems experience.
Background in tactical, defense, or constrained-environment engineering.
