Careers

Potomac Fusion, Inc. is a rapidly growing company engaged with the cutting edge of military intelligence technologies. We are gaining a reputation as the people who consistently deliver innovative, reliable, timely solutions to complex problems.

At PFI, we understand that our only real asset is our employees. That’s why we treat them like they matter. We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, a respectful work environment, engaging projects, and supportive management. Because we know that the best candidates have options – we simply want to be the best option available.

PFI is looking for intelligent, qualified, hard-working people who can help us redefine the discipline of intelligence analysis. If you need a work environment that challenges, educates, and rewards you, take a look at our job openings.

Positions

Send resumes and salary requirements to: jobs@potomacfusion.com

Flash Developer – Chantilly, VA

Primary Responsibilities

The Flash Developer will design and implement various Flash-based web components for several Federal Government customers, working in a team environment to develop engaging user interface elements, graphics, and visualizations.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • Ability to work with a fast-paced, iterative development methodology (Agile/SCRUM)
  • • Expert-level experience building interactive applications using Flash/Flex
  • • Solid experience with Actionscript 3
  • • Solid experience developing Client/Server applications in Flash
  • • Experience with Flash Builder development environment
  • • Experience with MVC design patterns, OOP, and unit testing

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Experience with AJAX, JSON, JavaScript libraries and plug-ins
  • • Flash animation and vector graphics
  • • Photoshop and optimizing web graphics
  • • Version control (CVS, Subversion)
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

Information Technology Researcher – Chantilly, VA

Primary Responsibilities

The Information Technology Researcher is a software developer with diverse scientific and technical knowledge to contribute to advanced IT research efforts. The successful candidate will have in-depth programming expertise and a history of building and deploying successful analytical tools.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • Minimum 10 years full time programming
  • • Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  • • Experience with .NET Framework 3.x
  • • In-depth experience developing managed/unmanaged C++/C#/.NET/Silverlight applications, data access applications, .NET components, Web Services, and Enterprise Services components
  • • Strong skills in object-oriented design, application architectures, and relational database design (MySQL and/or MS SQL), 3D graphics programming, WPF, XML/XSLT

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Semantic Web technologies (RDF/RDFS/OWL)
  • • HCI design, GIS, Microsoft XNA, DirectX/SlimDX
  • • ASP, HTML, JavaScript
  • • Computational linguistics (WordNet, LingPipe)
  • • Graph theory (Boost Graph Library)
  • • Statistics, data mining, human-computer interface design, spatial data structures, game programming experience

Intelligence Analyst – Chantilly, VA and Springfield, VA

Primary Responsibilities

The Intelligence Analyst will apply his/her expertise to help design and improve analytical and visualization tools, design realistic scenarios for test and demonstration, and demonstrate tools to Command and potential users. The Analyst will have superior briefing skills and be comfortable interacting with high-ranking government officials.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • Minimum 5 years ALLSOURCE analysis experience
  • • Proficiency with Microsoft Office
  • • Highly computer literate

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Experience with analytical tools such as Analyst Notebook, ARCGIS, Google Earth, Pathfinder and Palantir
  • • Experience with DCGS-A tools and data sources
  • • Familiarity with XML, HTML, Linux
  • • Experience testing/trouble-shooting web-based applications and providing meaningful feedback to developers
  • • Multi-INT experience
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

Java Database Developer – Austin, TX

Primary Responsibilities

The developer will work with highly experienced software engineers and architects to implement various aspects of a distributed Java-based custom application. There will be an emphasis on developing and optimizing SQL data repositories. Responsibilities will include providing valuable input into the design of the system, using the system to discover/uncover issues, and implementing various aspects of the system. The developer must be flexible, creative, able to take/give direction, straightforward, and hard-working.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • 5+ years Java programming (intermediate to advanced)
  • • Understanding of software design concepts, patterns, and best-practices
  • • RDBMS experience (SQL, DML, DDL, index, stored procedure, E-R)
  • • Database familiarity with MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or similar
  • • Deep understanding of database design and performance issues, especially query optimization
  • • Ability to formulate advanced/complex queries
  • • Familiarity with and understanding of ORM concepts, obstacles, and implementation
  • • Ability to effectively prioritize and complete multiple development tasks
  • • Ability to work in a fast-paced, often-changing environment
  • • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • • Ability to work collaboratively with others
  • • Ability and tendency to write unit tests
  • • Experience with CVS, Subversion, or other version control systems
  • • Professional and effective verbal and written communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Development environment proficiency with Eclipse, Netbeans, or similar
  • • Experience with Web Services (including REST)
  • • Experience with Hibernate (or other ORM framework) and Spring
  • • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • • Experience with Agile development methodologies
  • • Good time management, planning, and organizational skills
  • • Experience with DoD Intelligence systems such as DCGS-A
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

Java Developers – Chantilly, VA and Austin, TX

Primary Responsibilities

The Java Developers (all levels) will be more than just programmers. We are looking for developers who enjoy solving complex and cutting-edge problems, who are “rabid” coders and who implement complex algorithms to solve problems. The Java Developers will actively and rapidly build software for a government research program, as members of a mid-sized team, and develop analytical tools to operate on extremely large amounts of data – potentially in a grid/distributed environment. They will need to be able to develop a strong rapport with, and work at the direction of, government and academic researchers, developing standalone, client-server, and/or web-based software. They will write a lot of code, with very little process or red tape to get in the way.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • BS in Computer Science, Math, or related field (advanced degree is a plus)
  • • Minimum 2 years Java development experience (more for mid, senior levels)
  • • Minimum 2 years system design and software development in JEE (for mid, senior levels)
  • • Proficiency in at least one other programming or scripting language
  • • Solid understanding of OO design, data structures, and algorithms
  • • Ability to work in a very fast-paced, iterative development environment such as Extreme Programming (XP)

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Familiarity with distributed application models, such as Hadoop and MapReduce
  • • Python programming experience
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

.NET Developer – Austin, TX

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • Minimum 2 years C# programming (intermediate to advanced)
  • • UI development with WPF or Silverlight
  • • Understanding of software design concepts, patterns, and best practices
  • • Ability to effectively prioritize and complete multiple development tasks
  • • Ability to work in a fast-paced, often-changing environment
  • • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • • Ability to work collaboratively with others
  • • Ability and tendency to write unit tests
  • • Experience with CVS, Subversion or other version control systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Development proficiency with Visual Studio
  • • Experience with Web Services, including REST
  • • RDBMS experience
  • • Database familiarity with MS SQL Server, Oracle or similar
  • • Experience with Agile development methodology
  • • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • • Good time-management, planning, and organizational skills
  • • Experience with DoD Intelligence systems, such as DCGS-A
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

Program Controls Analyst – Chantilly, VA

Primary Responsibilities

The Program Cost Controls Analyst will prepare, analyze and review weekly and monthly internal/external financial reporting for assigned programs. He or she will monitor changes in contracts, track deliverables to ensure on-time delivery, track actual costs to budget, and maintain contract files for future reference. The Analyst will also ensure adequate funding by maintaining accurate records, preparing expense forecasts, and updating contract changes into control systems. This person may set up Earned Value tracking and will report/present earned value status to customers and upper management.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD security clearance
  • • BS degree in Finance, Math, Statistics, Management or related subject
  • • Solid knowledge/experience with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project
  • • Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative development methodology (Agile-SCRUM) environment
  • • Strong organizational skills
  • • Must be detail oriented, with high level of accuracy in work

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Solid understanding of DoD contract formats
  • • 0-3 years experience – this is a junior level position w/training provided
  • • Experience working with a software project lead
  • • Understanding of Earned Value Management and experience with an EVM program
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

Senior Cloud Developer – Austin, TX

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • B.S. in CS, Math or other science/engineering
  • • Ability and desire to work in a fast paced, iterative/Agile work environment
  • • Strong desire to use cutting edge technologies to solve problems with huge amounts of data in a cloud environment
  • • Solid understanding of Object-oriented techniques
  • • Working experience writing unit tests along with production code (JUnit, TestNG, etc)
  • • 10+ Years Experience writing professional software
  • • 5+ Years with Java
  • • 1+ Years Experience with Hadoop or similar
  • • 1+ Years Experience Modeling column oriented data stores (BigTable, HBase, Cassandra, etc.)
  • • 1+ Years Experience developing indexing strategies for “NoSQL” data stores (HBase, Cassandra, etc)
  • • 1+ Years work experience developing algorithms within Map/Reduce and/or BSP computing environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • • M.S. in Computer Science/Engineering
  • • Experience developing in a Unix/Linux environment
  • • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • • Experience with semantic web technologies
  • • Experience with natural language processing algorithms
  • • Experience with Lucene and/or Katta
  • • Active DoD secret clearance

Senior Java Developer – Austin, TX

Primary Responsibilities

The developer will work side by side with highly experienced software engineers and architects to implement various aspects of distributed Java-based custom applications. Responsibilities will include a technical leadership role within the software development team. The developer will be responsible for leading the team through all stages of software development: requirements, design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software and will establish and maintain relationships with customers and ensure compliance with existing processes as well as identify potential improvements to research and software development processes.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • 8+ years Java programming (intermediate to advanced)
  • • Understanding of software design concepts, patterns, and best-practices
  • • Ability to effectively prioritize and complete multiple development tasks
  • • Ability to work in a fast-paced, often-changing environment
  • • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • • Ability to work collaboratively with others
  • • Ability and tendency to write unit tests
  • • Experience with CVS, Subversion or other version control systems
  • • Professional and effective verbal and written communications skills
  • • Experience leading teams through the development process

Preferred Qualifications

  • • Development Environment proficiency with Eclipse, Netbeans or similar
  • • Experience with Web Services
  • • RDBMS experience
  • • Familiarity with MySQL, Oracle, Postgres or similar
  • • Experience with Hibernate and Spring
  • • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • • Experience with Agile development methodologies
  • • Good time-management, planning, and organizational skills
  • • Experience with DoD Intelligence systems such as DCGS-A
  • • Active DoD clearance

Senior Java Middleware Engineer – Chantilly, VA

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior Java Middleware Engineer will participate in development of server-side components to support a REST-based web desktop and gadget architecture for a government client. He or she will be exposed to state-of-the-art technology, such as natural language processing and non-SQL columnar distributed databases supporting massive datasets.

Basic Requirements

  • • Minimum 5 years development in Java
  • • Servlets
  • • Spring
  • • Solid experience with Actionscript 3
  • • Solid experience developing Client/Server applications in Flash
  • • Experience with Flash Builder development environment
  • • Experience with MVC design patterns, OOP, and unit testing

Preferred Qualifications

  • • JavaScript
  • • Hadoop or similar
  • • Cassandra
  • • Graph Algorithms

Senior JavaScript Developer – Chantilly, VA

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior JavaScript Developer will participate in the development of a next-generation, highly scalable, highly available computing system for a government client. Responsibilities will entail the creation and modification of a rich Web UI widget set for a large scale distributed system accessed via web services.

Basic Requirements

  • • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN, with ability/willingness to obtain DoD Top Secret clearance
  • • Minimum 5 years development experience in JavaScript
  • • Solid experience with AJAX, SPRING
  • • Solid knowledge of HTML/XHTML/CSS and cross-browser platform constraints
  • • Experience with ExtJS and/or jQuery libraries
  • • Ability to work using a fast-paced, iterative development methodology (Agile-SCRUM)/li>

Preferred Qualifications

  • • BS in Computer Science, Math, or related field
  • • Java Middleware, ExtJS, and Widgets experience
  • • Active DoD clearance

Send resumes and salary requirements to: jobs@potomacfusion.com