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Herndon, VAToday

$135,000–$250,500 Per Year

In addition to technical contributions, this position supports the day‑to‑day activities of the Software Engineering Group by providing technical guidance, assigning tasks, participating in complex engineering efforts, reviewing and approving formal documentation, and estimating labor, tools, and other resources to meet budget and schedule commitments. Ability to independently contribute to software requirements development, software testing and integration, and the creation of both application‑level and embedded C/C++ code on Windows-based and Linux‑based systems, including GUI and system‑control development.

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Washington, DC2 days ago

$120,000–$160,000 Per Year

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Fairfax, VA6 days ago

$135,000–$200,000 Per Year

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Washington, DC6 days ago

$90,000–$120,000 Per Year

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Washington, DC6 days ago

$90,000–$120,000 Per Year

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Chantilly, VA12 days ago

Full-time

As this is an established project already up and running, you will play a key role in contributing immediate value through feature enhancements, modernization of legacy components, and the optimization of data-heavy user experiences. You will work at the intersection of design and engineering, ensuring that our complex orchestration workflows remain intuitive, responsive, and visually consistent for our global user base.

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Herndon, VAToday

This team of veteran professional Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Controls Engineers, Project Managers, and Operators is uniquely positioned to provide detailed engineering and operational review and testing of equipment designs, operational functionality and construction practices. This includes, but not limited to, review of design documents and equipment submittals, leading Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and managing third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.

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Columbia, MD6 days ago

$150,000–$200,000 Per Year

With deep expertise in cloud-first architectures, automation, DevSecOps, virtualization, reliability engineering, and large-scale systems integration, we help organizations modernize infrastructure, improve operational efficiency, and support mission-critical environments where performance, security, and resiliency are essential. We work closely with stakeholders at every level of the organization—from executive leadership to engineering and operations teams—to provide scalable, resilient, and secure technology solutions that solve complex business and operational challenges.

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Chantilly, VAToday

$135,000–$250,500 Per Year

This team is at the forefront of satellite command and control systems, leveraging web technologies, distributed computing, sophisticated cloud technologies, frameworks, and cutting-edge capabilities. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

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Manassas, VA6 days ago

$130,000–$160,000 Per Year

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys owning technical designs from concept through execution while working alongside programmers, field engineers, project managers, and commissioning teams on complex, high-visibility projects. This role will support the design and delivery of highly reliable PLC-based control systems for large-scale facilities including data centers, central utility plants, critical HVAC infrastructure, and industrial process environments.

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Manassas, VA6 days ago

$95,000–$115,000 Per Year

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Herndon, VAToday

QCE will serve as the technical lead for day-to-day quality management activities and direct oversight of quality control vendors across OSA facilities in North America and on data center deployments across AWS build regions in North and South America (AMER). They must have a proven record of leading technical quality on large-scale critical infrastructure deployments, including progressive Quality Control, Installation Verification, Equipment Protection, and cost- and schedule-mitigating measures.

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Manassas, VA6 days ago

$120,000–$150,000 Per Year

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Washington, DC2 days ago

$100,000–$200,000 Per Year

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Arlington, VA6 days ago

$120,000–$150,000 Per Year

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McLean, VA6 days ago

Remote

$140,000–$180,000 Per Year

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Gaithersburg, MDToday

$87,100–$157,450

The TFDM program is a Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NextGen program based on airport surface management that provides efficiency for both the airport surface and terminal airspace by providing a new and comprehensive integrated surface traffic control and management system. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

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Manassas, VA6 days ago

$95,000–$115,000 Per Year

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Manassas, VA6 days ago

$80,000–$100,000 Per Year

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Manassas, VA6 days ago

$85,000–$95,000 Per Year

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Alexandria, VAToday

AWS Data Centers have multiple components such as generators, uninterruptable power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, variable frequency drives, automatic/static transfer switches, chillers [air-cooled and water-cooled], pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, CRAHs, air economizers, etc. - Frequently visit (locally) assigned in-operation data centers to troubleshoot, meet customers, supervise vendor’s work to ensure compliance with the scope, design, SOO and applicable local codes.

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Herndon, VAToday

BS/BA (or equivalent) in Optical, Electrical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, and minimum 6 years Software or systems experience or Graduate’s degree and 4 years software or systems experience. This Integration and Test / Technical trainer needs to experience in developing and executing structured training sessions tailored to customer needs, ensuring knowledge retention and effective skills transfer.

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McLean, VAToday

Architect and deliver end‑to‑end AI/ML solutions on Google Cloud using Vertex AI (Workbench, Pipelines, Training, Model Registry, Online/Batch Prediction, Feature Store, Model Monitoring) and Gemini/LLM services—optimized for performance, cost, and maintainability. Proven experience architecting robust data ingestion, processing, and transformation workflows using Dataflow, Data Fusion, Dataproc, BigQuery, and Looker and integrating these platforms with Vertex AI for model training, deployment, and inference.

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Chantilly, VAToday

$161,500–$300,500 Per Year

Enterprise Integration: Engineer and integrate cutting-edge capabilities, seamlessly merging legacy and emerging technologies to deliver robust mission solutions across complex government and DoD environments. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

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Quantico, VA3 days ago

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and ten (10) years of experience in monitoring, managing, and administering internet protocol (IP) networks in a production environment or, in lieu of education, ten (10) years of experience. Demonstrated ability to develop, test, document, and implement changes to communications networks to ensure efficient operation, interoperability with supported and affiliated tools, systems, and networks, and maximized user experience.

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Washington, DCToday

$150,000–$200,000 Per Year

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McLean, VA3 days ago

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting secure cloud environments, developing repeatable infrastructure patterns, improving deployment workflows, and helping engineering teams deliver workloads more efficiently. Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms.

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Arlington, VAToday

$70,000–$80,000

Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. At JLL, we are collectively shaping a brighter way for our clients, ourselves, and our fellow employees, and your technical skills will be essential to delivering the reliable, high-quality facility operations our clients depend on.

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Herndon, VAToday

$127,500–$236,500 Per Year

Build and maintain analytic toolsets representing each phase of the find, fix, target, track, engage, and assess (F2T2EA) chain using sensor, effects, and communications technologies, including decision support aids i.e. data visualization, Unity-game engines to support operations assessment, as well as lessons learned development/refinement experience. The selected Manager, Systems Engineering will work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse collaborative geographically dispersed team to develop various analytic toolsets focused on constructive simulation and experimentation across multi-domains, for a variety of customers, both internal and external contracts.

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Chantilly, Virginia5 days ago

Contractor

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design engineers, production personnel, and quality assurance, to optimize manufacturing operations and drive continuous improvement initiatives. As a Manufacturing Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to develop and improve manufacturing processes and systems to ensure the efficient and cost-effective production of defense and aerospace products.

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Laurel, MDToday

$85,000–$195,000

You will work in a teamed environment to analyze live tactical sensor data; identify and solve problems that impact mission requirements; compare to physics-based simulations that provide unprecedented realism and new levels of understanding of system performance in operationally realistic environments in the presence of the world's most challenging threats. APL provides eligible staff with a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development.

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Herndon, VAToday

The CxE is responsible for supporting vendors, contractors, and other teams involved in the construction and commissioning of various systems including medium and low voltage power systems, Generators, UPS, HVAC, Chilled Water, BMS, and EPMS systems. The responsibilities of the ACx Commissioning Engineer (CxE) include, but are not limited to, oversight and coordination of multi-discipline division of work related to design review and commissioning of Amazon critical infrastructure for new construction and special projects.

McLean, VA14 days ago

$165,000–$200,000

Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. Strong understanding of agentic AI including Transformers, Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent Protocol, LangGraph, and other modern frameworks.

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Laurel, MDToday

$100,000–$245,000

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) brings world-class expertise to our nation’s most critical defense, security, space and science challenges. APL provides eligible staff with a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development.

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Laurel, MDToday

$100,000–$245,000

We are seeking a motivated and creative Software Engineer to apply technical expertise across a broad range of software development skillsets to contribute to the rapid development and fielding of autonomous sensor solutions in some of the most challenging environments around the globe to help our sponsors complete their mission! In the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's (APL) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, we use applied engineering to field tomorrow's groundbreaking solutions for a set of government organizations.

Rockville, MD30+ days ago

$122,400–$168,300

Develops and/or leads teams in studies, plans, criteria, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, performance assessments, integrated systems analysis, cost estimates, budgets, associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of Exelon's electric generation, transmission, distribution, gas, and telecommunication facilities/systems. We are a Fortune 200 company, 19,000 colleagues strong serving more than 10 million customers at six energy companies -- Atlantic City Electric (ACE), Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), Delmarva Power & Light (DPL), PECO Energy Company (PECO), and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco).

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Laurel, MD1 day ago

$105,000–$290,000

The Electro Optical Seeker and Infrared Systems group (A1F) of the Air and Missile Defense Sector (AMDS) is seeking a Senior Embedded Systems & Hardware-in-the-Loop Engineer to lead the architecture and implementation of complete embedded systems, custom electronics hardware, FPGA firmware, real-time embedded software, and sophisticated HWIL test systems. APL provides eligible staff with a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development.

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Laurel, MD2 days ago

$100,000–$245,000

You'll be joining our hardworking team of system engineers, algorithm developers, FPGA and embedded software engineers, and advanced EW technology enthusiasts who enjoy working together to craft creative solutions to complex challenges. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) brings world-class expertise to our nation’s most critical defense, security, space and science challenges.

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Laurel, MDToday

$100,000–$245,000

We are seeking a physicist, mathematician or engineer to help us develop algorithms and assess the performance of the next generation of radio frequency sensor systems for land, air, and sea-launched interceptors. APL provides eligible staff with a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development.

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Laurel, MDToday

$100,000–$245,000

We are seeking a physicist, mathematician or engineer to help us develop algorithms and assess the performance of the next generation of infrared and optical sensor systems for land, air, and sea-launched interceptors. APL provides eligible staff with a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development.

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Laurel, MDToday

$100,000–$245,000

You will work with engineers and scientists to develop new concepts for software defined radios and payloads for space RF and optical systems for communications, PNT, remote sensing, and ISR&T applications. Are willing and able to accommodate flexible hours for spacecraft level testing activities for short periods of time, infrequent travel to customer or sponsor locations as well as spacecraft integration and test sites.

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Laurel, MD2 days ago

$100,000–$245,000

Our engineers and analysts apply a wide-range of disciplines such as sensor and data fusion, signal and image processing, operations research, applied physics, and artificial intelligence to build systems that automatically or autonomously orchestrate sensors, process data into information, and make intelligent inferences and predictions about complex threats and environments. Have domain knowledge in ISR processes, systems, platforms, and sensors used by the US military and intelligence community; Navy and Air Force kill chain concepts; targeting, C2, and mission planning processes and tools; threat systems, weapon platforms and systems, and communications networks.

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Frederick, MDToday

$38.46–$44.95

Responds to dynamic 24/7 business environment via availability to work odd hours including periodic holidays and weekends throughout the year regarding changing plant conditions and risks. This role will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of eight Cleaver Brooks 400 & 500 HP boilers and associated equipment at our customer's facility located in Frederick, Maryland.

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Laurel, MDToday

$100,000–$245,000

Actively provide technical and thought leadership, through concept and feasibility studies, toward an effective defensive capability through the integration of sensors, weapons, additional information sources, and sophisticated decision processes into an Integrated Combat System (ICS) architecture. Have 5+ years of progressive experience analyzing one or more of the following domains: Integrated Air and Missile Defense Sensors, Weapon System Operation, Command and Control Systems, Integrated Air and Missile Defense Weapons.

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Laurel, MDToday

$105,000–$290,000

We are seeking a self-motivated engineer who will lead and participate with our growing team of PNT specialists focusing on time transformation, synchronization, and dissemination, engaged in developmental efforts beyond geostationary orbits into the cislunar region of space, and ultimately to the lunar surface, and beyond. Whether it is developing the next Jovian moon tour, calculating an optimal low-thrust trajectory, helping to coordinate time between vehicles in cislunar space, or applying modern scientific computing to radiometric navigation, there is a wellspring of intellectually rewarding challenges for the right candidate.

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Alexandria, VAToday

In this leadership role, you’ll manage a team of electrical engineers and work on multidisciplinary projects across sectors including healthcare, infrastructure, and industrial facilities. Proficient in Revit, Bluebeam, MS Office, and power analysis tools (EasyPower, SKM, or ETAP).

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Columbia, MDToday

$175,000–$185,000

This role focuses on deriving software design and performance requirements from complex user needs and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions. This role is ideal for a senior technical leader capable of overseeing multi-team development efforts.

Columbia, MD10 days ago

$175,000–$185,000

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