Junior Cloud Software Engineer (AI/ML) - TS/SCI w/ Poly at Peraton
Annapolis Junction, MD
$80,000–$128,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A junior-level engineering role focused on developing and integrating cloud-based software for national security applications. Day-to-day work involves building and maintaining solutions across areas such as AI/ML, data analytics, and dataflow pipelines running on large-scale compute clusters and AWS infrastructure. The role suits early-career engineers or recent graduates with a background in software development, testing, and distributed systems.
Mid level · 4+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Junior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). 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 (7)
The title says 'Junior' but the required qualifications gate on 4+ years of directly related software development experience, which aligns with a Mid-level role — the advertised and actual seniority disagree.
A Bachelor's degree is described as 'highly desired' and treated as equivalent to 4 years of experience, so it is not a hard degree requirement.
TS/SCI with polygraph is a hard gate: candidates must be US citizens and able to obtain this clearance. The role is on-site in Annapolis Junction, MD (within the Baltimore CBSA).
All skills under 'Desired Qualifications' — including NoSQL/distributed data stores (HBase, Accumulo, Bigtable), high-level language experience (Java, C, C++), software integration/testing experience, and cloud certifications — are explicitly preferred, not required.
The AWS cloud infrastructure mention appears in the role narrative/context section; however, given the role is explicitly described as a Cloud Software Engineer building on AWS infrastructure, AWS is treated as a hard gate. All other specific technologies appear only under desired/preferred sections.
December 2026 graduates are encouraged to apply, suggesting the role is open to candidates who will meet the experience threshold through a combination of education and internship/co-op work.
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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