Code Metal
Overview
Principal Software Engineer, Visualization & Frontend — lead responsible for turning real-time physics, AI insights, and massive data streams into accessible, high-impact visual experiences. The role involves shaping a modular UI stack, handling dense geospatial and temporal data, and mentoring a small team to ship polished products quickly.
Responsibilities
- Architect a next-gen UI framework—design a component library and plugin system that lets internal teams (and future third-parties) extend visualizations without touching core code
- Render data at scale—build responsive views that fuse live sim outputs, AI overlays, and historical datasets into one coherent, zoom-through timeline
- Integrate cleanly—consume FastAPI/ZeroMQ endpoints from the backend and publish well-versioned client APIs for mission-planning tools and dashboards
- Iterate with stakeholders and UX design leads—relentlessly optimize experience driven by performance and feedback from Airforce wargamers and UX leads
- Lead by example—drive UI/UX best practices, code reviews, design critique, and automated testing; help teammates grow into force multipliers
- Ship continuously—own the CI/CD pipeline for web and desktop targets, with an eye toward DoD accreditation and cross-domain distribution
Why Code Metal?
- Mission with impact: your visuals steer the conversations that shape tomorrow's force
- Velocity: tight loops, small teams—design in the morning, deploy by evening
- Ownership: no spectators—every engineer ships code that matters
Requirements
Must-have credentials
- 6+ years building and deploying data-rich, production-grade web applications
- Mastery of modern TypeScript/JavaScript frameworks and state-management patterns
- Proven record designing modular, extensible frontends that multiple teams can evolve in parallel
- Deep experience visualizing large datasets (time-series, geospatial, graph) in real time
- Strong grasp of secure, maintainable build and packaging workflows
- Active Secret clearance (or the ability to obtain quickly)
Bonus points
- WebGL / WebGPU, deck.gl, Cesium, or other high-performance rendering libraries
- Cross-platform desktop packaging (Electron, Tauri, Progressive Web Apps)
- Familiarity with human-factors design for mission-critical environments
- TS/SCI clearance
Benefits
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
- 401k with 5% matching
- Paid Time Off (Uncapped Vacation, plus Sick & Public Holidays)
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees
Seniorility and Employment details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Other
- Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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