Senior Software Engineer & AI Development Enablement Lead

This is a 6-month contract position for a Senior Software Engineer & AI Development Enablement Lead, based in Woodlawn, Maryland. The role is central to modernizing the organization's development ecosystem by teaching, guiding, and enabling software developers to adopt AI coding assistants and AI-powered development workflows. You will provide hands-on mentorship, support infrastructure and governance initiatives, and help integrate AI-assisted development across the full software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on mentorship to software developers, demonstrating how to use AI coding assistants and AI development tools within real workflows.
• Teach best practices for integrating AI-assisted development into each phase of the SDLC, including requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Lead modernization efforts by helping developers adopt AI-assisted patterns for code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.
• Evaluate applications and recommend opportunities to embed AI development tools for improved productivity, maintainability, and quality.
• Stay current with AI development frameworks, tools, methodologies, and industry advancements.
• Manage procurement, licensing, configuration, maintenance, and performance monitoring of AI-related tools and software.
• Support server, storage, network, and cloud environments required for AI workloads, and recommend scaling strategies as AI adoption grows.
• Develop and deliver training materials, workshops, and instructional guides for developers adopting AI-assisted development.
• Help teams incorporate AI-assisted testing, AI-supported code analysis, automated documentation, and AI-driven optimization techniques.
• Support creation and maintenance of governance frameworks aligned with organizational policies and federal regulations.

Qualifications

• Required

• Minimum 5+ years of software engineering experience with skills across the full software development lifecycle.

• Hands-on, daily active usage of modern AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Gemini Code Assist, or similar AI-assisted development tools.

• Demonstrated ability to provide mentorship and teach AI development best practices.

• Experience evaluating applications and recommending AI tool integration opportunities.

• Experience managing software licensing, configuration, and maintenance of development tools.

• Ability to develop training materials and deliver instructional content.

• Experience with SDLC support, quality engineering, and code analysis.

• Preferred

• Prior experience supporting federal agencies and understanding of FedRAMP.

• Experience implementing AI commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products in government environments.

• Experience in regulated environments with strict documentation discipline.

• Familiarity with AI/ML operational pipelines and lifecycle management.