Full-Stack Software Engineer at Bridge Core (BCore)
Reston, VA
$165,000–$195,000from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Reston, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and iterating a standalone, air-gapped AI application that runs entirely on a single offline device, processing documents, images, audio, and video through locally hosted AI models. The work spans a Python/Flask backend, a browser-based frontend, on-device AI/ML integration (including local language models, RAG, and speech transcription), and security sandboxing features. It suits engineers with full-stack experience who are comfortable working in disconnected, edge environments and hold a TS/SCI with polygraph.
Senior level · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting explicitly requires a TS/SCI with polygraph — this is stated both in the overview and in the responsibilities section as a hard gate.
Flask is listed as required with 'or equivalent' — alternatives populated with common Python web framework substitutes (Django, FastAPI).
The required 'relational databases and/or vector stores' requirement is captured under 'vector stores' as the more distinctive skill; relational databases are a broad category with no specific product named.
Rocky Linux / RHEL family is mentioned as context for the Linux requirement — no separate skill emitted since it is a variant of the broader Linux gate.
All Desired Qualifications items (Ollama, RAG, ChromaDB, Whisper/faster-whisper, Apache Tika, ClamAV, YARA, Git, CI/CD) are listed under the explicit 'Desired Qualifications' heading and are therefore preferred.
No overall years-of-experience requirement is stated in the posting; seniority is assessed as Senior based on the scope of the role (end-to-end ownership of a standalone edge AI application, security sandboxing, CI/CD, and redeployment lifecycle).
The title carries no explicit seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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