Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics is a company that engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services for defense and scientific arenas. They are seeking a Configuration / Release Engineer to establish and maintain configuration baselines, manage releases, and implement change tracking for AI artifacts in a defense environment.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain baselines for all AI artifacts — code, prompt libraries, model versions, agent configurations, training datasets, ontologies, policies, and documentation. Every artifact has a version, an owner, and a history
- Coordinate and control releases across pods. Track what version of what is in which environment. Manage promotion from dev through staging to production
- Implement change tracking for all AI artifacts. Every change has a record — what changed, who changed it, who approved it, and why. Support audit and compliance requirements
- Ensure every deployment can be reversed. Build and test rollback procedures so that when something goes wrong in production, recovery is a known process, not an improvisation
- Work with engineers to ensure build, test, and deployment pipelines enforce configuration controls automatically. Controls should be built into the pipeline, not bolted on as a review step
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field, plus 8 years of experience
- Production experience with configuration management — you have maintained baselines, managed releases, and controlled changes for software systems in production
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices — Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar. You understand pipeline-driven deployment and how to build controls into it
- Experience with versioning and artifact management — you have managed more than just source code; configurations, data assets, documentation, or similar
- Strong organizational and documentation skills — your baselines are accurate, your change records are complete, and other people can understand your systems
- U.S. citizenship required. Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire
- Experience with AI/ML systems — you understand that AI artifacts (models, prompts, training data) require different CM approaches than traditional software
- Experience in defense, aerospace, or regulated industries where configuration control has compliance implications
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and container registry management
- Experience building or improving CM processes — you have designed a configuration management system, not just operated within one
Benefits
- Remote — 100% telework
- 9/80 schedule
- Flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded
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