When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.
At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Software Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Works across multiple languages and platforms, designs and implements architectural decisions, applies design patterns, cloud-native services, IAAS/PAAS/SAAS basics, and secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
Work & Complexity: Performs complex tasks under limited guidance, integrates and troubleshoots distributed or cloud services, and optimizes performance and scalability.
Quality & Independence: Sets a high bar for code quality, multitasks effectively, owns and corrects errors quickly, and drives continuous improvement.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads code reviews, mentors teammates, and translates technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Works directly with clients without oversight, writes technical RFP content when needed, nurtures client relationships, and manages routine client concerns.
The Senior Developer with Analytics will lead the design and implementation of advanced data analytics and processing solutions supporting law enforcement missions. This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership, mentoring, and direct client engagement.
Architect and develop scalable, high-performance analytics and data processing systems
Design and optimize complex database queries and data pipelines
Perform data migration, preparation, modeling, and indexing for analytics platforms
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated data solutions
Mentor junior developers and promote development best practices
Engage directly with customers to gather requirements and present technical solutions
Contribute to written deliverables and technical documentation
U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a DHS 6C Public Trust clearance
Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science preferred, or equivalent experience)
5+ years of software development experience, including at least 1 year focused on analytics
Strong experience with:
Python (including data science libraries)
SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL and/or Oracle)
Data warehouses and data lakes
Apache Spark and Databricks
Elasticsearch
Ability to work onsite in Crystal City, VA 1–2 days per week
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience mentoring or leading technical teams
Prior experience supporting government or mission-critical environments
Advanced analytics, data modeling, or large-scale data processing experience
Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.