DoD MLOps Software Engineer
Charles River Analytics · Honolulu, HI
$140,000–$225,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Honolulu, HI
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · National · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 posting is for a customer on-site embedded role; the work location is not explicitly named, but the customer context (military wargaming, AWS GovCloud) strongly implies a US government facility. No specific city or CBSA could be determined from the posting.
Clearance is stated as 'active or eligible for a security clearance, as required by contract' — this is a soft gate (eligibility accepted), but the national-security/military context makes it a practical requirement. Mapped to Secret as the minimum implied level; the actual level is contract-dependent.
The SOC classification is a judgment call: the role blends applied AI/simulation engineering (15-1252) with data-science/analytical work (15-2051). The primary day-to-day work — coding agent behavior, configuring simulation backends, deployment engineering — tips toward Software Developers.
A graduate-level degree is listed as preferred, not required; the hard minimum stated is a Bachelor's degree.
Python, YAML/JSON, SQL, Git, CI/CD, LLMs, DSLs, behavior trees, and multi-agent systems all appear under the 'We prefer to see' section and are therefore preferred, not required.
The 5+ years of AI/agent-based simulation experience appears under the preferred section, so it is not captured as the overall years minimum (no overall experience floor is stated in the required section).
Requires a Secret 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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