HELP SHAPE THE ARMY'S DIGITAL FUTURE
Our teams are made of Soldiers from all backgrounds and over 40 MOSs.
11A
Infantry Officer
11B
Infantryman
125D
Geospatial Information Technician
12A
Engineer
13R
Field Artillery Firefinder Radar Operator
17C
Cyber Operations Specialist
19A
Armor Officer
25D
Cyber Network Defender
35F
Intelligence Analyst
915A
Automotive Maintenance Warrant Officer
92W
Water Treatment Specialist
15P
Aviation Operation Specialist
42A
Human Resources Specialist
65D
Physician Assistant
180A
Special Forces Warrant Officer
88M
Motor Transport Operator
153M
UH-60M Pilot
65B
Physical Therapist
14G
Air Defense
27D
Paralegal Specialist
68W
Combat Medic Specialist
74D
CBRN Specialist
11A
Infantry Officer
11B
Infantryman
125D
Geospatial Information Technician
12A
Engineer
13R
Field Artillery Firefinder Radar Operator
17C
Cyber Operations Specialist
19A
Armor Officer
25D
Cyber Network Defender
35F
Intelligence Analyst
915A
Automotive Maintenance Warrant Officer
92W
Water Treatment Specialist
15P
Aviation Operation Specialist
42A
Human Resources Specialist
65D
Physician Assistant
180A
Special Forces Warrant Officer
88M
Motor Transport Operator
153M
UH-60M Pilot
65B
Physical Therapist
14G
Air Defense
27D
Paralegal Specialist
68W
Combat Medic Specialist
74D
CBRN Specialist
Find your next Army career and be at the forefront of innovation.
At the Army Software Factory, you'll collaborate with a diverse team of Soldiers, contractors, and DA civilians to shape how the Army pioneers the digital frontier through software solutions.
Application windows are typically during the months of March and October
FIND YOUR JOB
Product Manager
Product Managers are charged with balancing user needs, organizational outcomes, and technical feasibility in order to build value quickly while still considering the big picture. Our teams are flat and balanced, with Developers, Designers, Product Managers, and Platform Engineers working in concert, empowered to build the software we know our Soldiers need. As a Product Manager you will write user stories to describe new features Designers have identified through user interviews, oversee the product's backlog, and validate what the Developers have delivered. You work to keep the team unblocked and de-risked using hypothesis-driven development.
Product (UI/UX) Designer
Software Development Designers (UI/UX Designers) ensure application teams are building products that meet user needs. Sometimes referred to as an “Empathizer in Chief”, UX/UI Designers act as the main conduit to the user. Designers cover a wide variety of skills to be successful including user research, experience and interaction design, as well as visual design. By practicing Soldier Centered Design (SCD), designers act as an intelligent filter for user feedback and ensure that their teams tackle the highest user priorities. As a part of a Balanced Team with Product Managers and Engineers, Designers work collaboratively with their teammates to determine design priorities, refine a backlog and roadmap, and validate the technical complexity of their designs.
Software Engineer
Software Development Engineers design, develop and deploy apps with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability. Software Development Engineers implement user stories from the backlog and write tests before they write production code. Testing first gives Engineers confidence and ensure software is free of bugs or security vulnerabilities. Since Engineers work with a balanced-team approach, they provide inputs on complexity and architecture decisions to the Product Team members. Software Engineers also practice eXtreme Programming (XP), in which pairs of Engineers work together on the same line of code to share context and knowledge transfer.
Platform Engineer
Platform Engineers play a major role in developing, managing, configuring, and securing platforms on which all applications rely. They automate the installation, configuration and maintenance of services on the Army Software Factory platform. Platform Engineers manage system-level performance tuning to optimize for reliability and efficiency and guide software releases and activations for new features and platform configuration. You will ensure all applications that are deployed are secure, reliable, and resilient.
THE PIPELINE
PHASE 1
PHASE 1
Technical Accelerator
Accelerator/boot camp providing academics as a cold start to level the bubble for all cohort members.
The pipeline begins with a six-month (approximate) technical accelerator to baseline foundational skills for the selected track.
PHASE 2
PHASE 2
1:1 SME Training
Vendor led best-in-class model with 1:1 pairing of cohort members and SMEs on a balanced team for on-the-job training/enablement on an existing Product Team solving real-world problems.
1-on-1 vendor/Subject Matter Expert (SME)-led pairing begins immediately following the technical accelerator. This methodology is akin to learning a foreign language by pairing personnel who are extremely proficient in all elements of that foreign culture. In this phase participants are broken out into product development teams of approximately six personnel or join the platform team. The product teams consist of a Product Manager (PM), User Interface / User Experience (UI/UX) Designer, and Software Development Engineers. Each cohort member pairs with a full-stack Software Engineer, UI/UX designer, or PM trained in enabling others to learn. The focus is not on classroom academics, but rather on learning while solving an Army problem. This pairing can last up to six-months and is based on each cohort member’s individual progression. The cohort members operate as part of a modern software team to learn both coding and the right way to scope and manage agile software projects. Throughout this time, the participants conduct consultant-like site visits across the Army to scope the problem and iterate solutions and develop a software solution that solves an Army problem with the highest level of modern rigor.
PHASE 3
PHASE 3
Sustained Factory
Steady state product teams creating software solutions in a software factory environment (physically and digitally).
At the conclusion of the pairing experience, Army team members are now proficient in modern software development. They have accrued 12 months of cumulative academic and project experience. At this point they enter the final phase of their progression at the Software Factory and continue to work on Army problems. This phase may include collaboration with startups and/or academia for mutually beneficial code development. It may also include short-term internship opportunities as proffered by local tech stakeholders (primes, start-ups, and non-traditional entities in the Austin area). The overall objective is to take a Soldier or Civilian from the “regular Army” and get them acclimated to modern software engineering. Cohort members are now able to pair together and augment other teams as needed. Select cohort members will become the paired expert for future cohorts during phase two as the program sets the conditions to transition from the vendor-led pairing to Army-led pairing. After a total of 12-months, participants embark on a utilization tour to continue employment as software development teams.
