Network Systems Software Engineer

Cyber Division Emerging Technology and Capabilities' 5G Network Systems Group is seeking Network Systems Software Engineers to be part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies with significant and immediate impact on our national security. Our group’s purpose is developing breakthrough communications innovations on all networking levels, from the physical to the application layer. We believe that everyone has a unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives that are essential to providing our customers with innovative solutions. As such, multiple positions are available with responsibility commensurate on experience.

This is an opportunity to work in an exciting, high profile, fast paced, but structured development environment as part of a diverse and talented team Our culture enables us to develop impactful technologies through collaborative teamwork, while maintaining high standards of craftsmanship and quality.

The ideal Network Systems Software Engineer will be intellectually curious and motivated to work within a team structure to develop technical solutions in a rapid prototyping and results-driven environment. Successful candidates will be experienced in network protocols, infrastructure, and embedded software development with a passion for demonstrating results. Candidates should have versatile skills in computer science, algorithm design, software architecture, communications theory, and pragmatic software development.

In this role, you will design, implement, and test software that supports advanced real-time data communications and networking solutions using open systems concepts. We expect the tools and techniques we develop and deliver to meet high standards of quality, maintainability, and reuse, so experience with sound software engineering principles and software testing methodologies is valuable.

Duties will include:

• Working closely with a small, dedicated research team to develop innovative solutions to complex problems
• Executing assigned tasks and reporting overall status to the project leaders
• Developing novel software solutions that span research, development, and deployed production systems
• Identifying and implementing creative and novel approaches to open ended problems
• Delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced team environment
• Developing operational prototypes for experimentation and performance analyses

Required Skills and Experience:

• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret (TS) Security Clearance
• In-depth knowledge of networking/communications theory per the OSI stack model  
• Experience developing TCP/UDP/IP networking software and hardware device interfaces
• Proficient in modern C, C , or similar embedded systems programming languages
• Comfortable using Python, MATLAB, and other similar high-level programming languages
• Familiarity of rapid SW/HW prototyping design methodologies and open architectures
• Working knowledge of software design patterns and industry best practices
• Experience developing software with GNU/Linux toolchains using Open-Source software
• Understanding of software-hardware interfacing techniques and implementation

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Active Security Clearance
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining robust and stable software
• Understanding of computer and operating system architecture, such as file systems, memory/process/thread management, device drivers and/or loadable kernel modules
• Experience writing software using a large multi-party code base
• Experience working in a laboratory environment using measurement equipment and performing quantitative data analysis
• Experience developing software using machine learning techniques
• Familiarity with multi-threaded or multi-core real-time operating concepts
• Experience with high level-software architecture design
• Experience developing software at the PHY, MAC, Network, or Application protocol layers