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Booz Allen

Builds AI and cyber systems for the US government

Integration Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026Deadline 11/9/26
$77.5k - $176k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 7 years of experience in systems engineering, systems integration, or mission-system systems engineering and integration.
  • At least 3 years of experience integrating software, microservices, mission applications, or test environments within Department of War, electronic warfare, or space-related programs.
  • Experience working with operators to understand needs, develop requirements, and translate those needs to development teams for implementation.
  • Experience with DevSecOps tools, continuous integration and continuous delivery, configuration management, and secure repositories.
  • Experience contributing to software product evaluation and software quality assurance activities, including adherence to coding standards, secure-development practices, and verification of deliverable artifacts.
  • Knowledge of software integration patterns across synchronous and asynchronous interactions, including request and response services, publish and subscribe models, event-driven workflows, distributed queues, and streaming data flows.
  • Knowledge of containerized architectures, cloud platforms, application programming interface design, or interface control.
  • Top Secret clearance is required.
  • A bachelor's degree is required.
Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and implement solutions for software integration projects across functions or between organizations.
  • Use DevSecOps, Agile delivery, and user-centered design processes to integrate remote electronic warfare systems into one operating location.
  • Develop a Common Operating Picture, mission management, weapon-target pairing, and mission scheduling and execution in Amazon Web Services environments.
  • Use GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, Jira, Confluence, Cameo or MagicDraw, and Amazon Web Services to plan, organize, and conduct integration projects that meet design specifications and standards from inception to completion.
  • Lead and execute technical integration activities for the client's program, spanning systems engineering, microservices integration, cross-domain solution alignment, interface management, and mission-application integration across cloud-native architecture.
  • Contribute to multi-vendor integration efforts, Agile and DevSecOps workflows, and operationalization of mission capabilities in partnership with Space Systems Command and mission operators.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience supporting Space Electronic Warfare, electronic warfare, RMT, Bounty Hunter, or Meadowlands ecosystem integration.
  • Experience in modeling, simulation, Linux environments, and configuration management for mission-critical operations.
  • Experience with operator-facing integration through touchpoints, demonstrations, and user-experience-informed design.
  • Experience identifying, analyzing, and troubleshooting defects, including root-cause determination and retest validation.
  • Knowledge of application-programming-interface-centric and contract-based interfaces, applying versioning, schema evolution, and backward-compatible integration techniques across mission applications.
  • Knowledge of model-based systems engineering methodologies, UDL integration, telemetry standards, and cross-domain solutions.
  • Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance.

About the company

Booz Allen builds and runs technology for the U.S. government, mostly for the military and intelligence agencies, and its engineers work alongside consultants who know each agency's mission. In 1958, it helped the U.S. Navy create PERT, a project-scheduling method first used on the Polaris submarine missile program and later adopted across government and industry. Its teams design cyber defenses, AI and data tools, and battlefield communications, and it sells its own products, such as Vellox, a suite of AI tools that spot and fight off hackers. Agencies pay mainly through multi-year contracts that reimburse costs, bill hours, or set a fixed price. Booz Allen was founded in 1914 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1914

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What believers are saying

  • Product work is growing: Booz Allen bought Ultra's battlefield encryption and computing unit for $720 million in August 2026.
  • Hiring continues despite cuts: Booz Allen listed 2,282 open roles in October 2026, 1,097 of them in technology.
  • Work is lined up for years: backlog, including contract options, hit $39.5 billion in June 2026, about 3.5 years' revenue.

What critics are saying

  • Job security has slipped: staff fell from 33,400 to 30,900 in the year to June 2026 as civil work shrank.
  • Stock grants lost value: shares fell 29% in the year to October 2026 while defense IT rival CACI rose 14%.
  • Shutdowns halt paid work: the federal shutdown that began October 2025 cost Booz Allen about $50 million in unperformed work.

What makes Booz Allen unique

  • Most coworkers are cleared for secrets: about 77% of Booz Allen's 31,500 employees held security clearances in March 2026.
  • AI is its specialty: Booz Allen calls itself the federal government's largest AI provider, with about 400 active AI projects.
  • It bankrolls defense tech startups: Booz Allen tripled its venture fund to $300 million in July 2025, backing 17 companies.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Vacation
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Remote Work Options
  • Flexible Work Hours

Company News

PR Newswire
Oct 9th, 2026
PDW integrates Booz Allen mission autonomy software on AM drones with secure fleet updates

Performance Drone Works announced it is integrating Booz Allen's mission autonomy software, powered by Shield AI's Hivemind, onto its AM drones. The software enables autonomy-assisted missions whilst operators retain decision-making authority. PDW is also deploying Booz Allen's secure over-the-air fleet update system across its aircraft portfolio. The combined product entered testing on 30 September and is planned for general availability in Q1 2027. PDW aims to extend the autonomy software to its C100 aircraft later in 2027. The integration supports PDW's strategy to rapidly field and adapt systems. The company's Huntsville facility has annual production capacity of 100,000 drones. Booz Allen's update system is designed to reduce approved update cycles from weeks to hours, even in contested environments.

Tectonic
Oct 5th, 2026
Aventra raises $17.5M for high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bombs

Virginia-based startup Aventra has raised $17.5 million in new funding, with Konvoy Ventures leading the round. Seed round backer Lavrock Ventures participated alongside new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Sands Capital, Langford Industries, and Western Alliance Bank. The company manufactures Piranha, a high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bomb that converts unguided munitions into precision-guided weapons. Since emerging from stealth with a $3.5 million seed round last October, Aventra has delivered over 400 units to US and NATO customers and doubled its production revenue. The system launches munitions from 60,000 feet and can glide approximately 100 miles, with recent demonstrations achieving accuracy within three metres of targets. Aventra plans to use the funding to scale production from 35 units monthly to 500 through a new Virginia facility called Factory Zero.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 14th, 2026
Palantir, Nvidia, Booz Allen restrict Anthropic and OpenAI models over data retention concerns

Palantir Technologies, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting use of AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI over data protection concerns, Reuters reported. The companies worry model providers could retain or extract value from sensitive corporate information. Palantir has pressed Anthropic for zero data retention guarantees. Nvidia limits Anthropic's models to less sensitive tasks, favouring its own Nemotron models for proprietary work. Booz Allen has banned staff from using Anthropic's commercial model on cybersecurity projects involving proprietary data. The pushback intensified after Anthropic introduced a 30-day data retention policy in June for its Claude 3.5 model, citing security monitoring needs. Anthropic responded by launching Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, allowing customers to store activity data in their own cloud infrastructure under their encryption keys.

Business Wire
Sep 12th, 2026
Credo AI Announces $21 Million in New Capital, Grows Leadership Team to Match the Rapid Pace of AI Innovation, Emerges as the Standard of Responsible AI Governance

Credo AI, a global leader in AI governance software, today announced that it has raised $21 million in new capital from CrimsoNox Capital, Mozilla Ventures, ...

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Sep 2nd, 2026
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments | TechCrunch

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