Senior AI Software Developer

Overview

Pyramid Systems is seeking a Senior AI Software Developer to build AI-enabled applications and lead the modernization of legacy federal systems including COBOL-to-Python re-platforming—for our HUD customer and the AIR product platform. This is an applied AI engineering role focused on delivering production software that leverages modern AI services (LLMs, APIs, and cloud AI platforms), not building foundation models. You will work directly with HUD stakeholders and the NEXUS/AIR team to ship secure, compliant, mission-aligned capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical leader on AI-enabled application work — own end-to-end architecture, set technical direction across multiple projects, and represent Pyramid Systems in technical conversations with HUD and other federal stakeholders.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-enabled applications that integrate LLMs, generative AI services, and cloud AI APIs into production federal systems
• Build full-stack web applications end to end — modern front-end interfaces (React, Angular, or Vue with TypeScript), back-end services (Python with Django/Flask/FastAPI or Node.js), and the database, API, and integration layers behind them
• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices — automated build, test, and deploy; SAST/DAST and dependency scanning; container and image scanning; secrets management; SBOM generation; and shift-left security gates
• Author infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) and manage containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) on FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments
• Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar) so AI-enabled applications are observable and operable in production
• Drive engineering quality through automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), Git-based code review, and trunk-based or GitHub-flow branching practices
• Support Agil...