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Tysons, VA1 day ago

$140,000–$215,000 Per Year

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West McLean, VA2 days ago

$140,000–$215,000 Per Year

With first hand knowledge of problems that arise deploying software with millions of concurrent users worldwide, this paradigm changing tool will enable engineers to quickly, efficiently, and reliably develop and deploy large scale distributed systems autonomously. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal.

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Chantilly, VA1 day ago

$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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Sterling, VA5 days ago

Full-time

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (5 positions offered) to design, develop and code applications using Java and Scala; Integrate backend software applications using Postgres and NoSQL databases; Create performance test suite using Jmeter; Implement cloud infrastructure using AWS services; Build Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Github, Jenkins and Artifactory. A Bachelor’s degree with 5 yrs of progressively responsible experience will be accepted in lieu of the Master’s degree and 2 years of experience; Any suitable combination of education, training or experience is acceptable.

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Richmond, Virginia1 day ago

$65–$71 Per Hour
Contractor

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. This role focuses on integrating Terraform, Ansible, and OpenShift into a cohesive platform that enables consistent infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and application deployment.

Dahlgren, VA30 days ago

SYSTEMS ENGINEER (MBSE) (E30-2026-24878): Bowhead seeks a DoD SECRET cleared Systems Engineer with Model-Based Systems Engineering experience to join our team supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) on the MK 160 Gun Computer System and Naval Fires Control Systems. Job duties include but are not limited to: Provide input/support in the requirements validation, operational conceptualization, and developmental testing.

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Roanoke, VAToday

$111,400–$185,917
Full-time
Employee

9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience. Candidates will be exposed to and become proficient with a variety of technologies involving hardware description languages, embedded instruction architectures, high-level software development languages, formal verification tools, and more.

Ashburn, VA30+ days ago

$98,153–$109,324 Per Year

Involves working closely with cross-functional product teams, including product managers, UX designers, systems engineers, and DevSecOps personnel, to deliver high-quality solutions that support mission-critical operations.   . This role provides technical leadership, supports incident response and escalation activities, and collaborates with architects, security teams, and service owners in a mission-critical federal IT environment.  .

Richmond, VA30+ days ago

$96,800–$223,400 Per Year

We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. Your work will focus on building a centralized platform for OCI teams to manage Software BOM, tracking security/vulnerability updates, EOL-detection, building automated guardrails to prevent security exposure and ensure governance and compliance across all of OCI.

Chantilly, Virginia30+ days ago

Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, a Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience, a PhD with 4 years of relevant experience, or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree. Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience, a Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience, a PhD with 1 year of relevant experience, or 9 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

Herndon, VA30+ days ago

For Senior Principal level: A Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of relevant experience; OR a Master's degree with 7+ years of relevant experience; OR a PhD with 4+ years of relevant experience an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement. For Staff level: A Bachelor's degree with 14+ years of relevant experience; OR a Master's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; OR a PhD with 9+ years of relevant experience an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.

Miller Park, VA20 days ago

$112,000–$152,000 Per Year

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. Including architectural vision, technology choices, and best practices to create scalable, reliable solutions designed to simplify and streamline core business functions.

Herndon, VA30+ days ago

Falls Church, VA27 days ago

We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer who will be responsible for developing and maintaining our flagship product assets. • Experience with the following: o AI Training & Inference: LLM (Large Language Models), Deep Learning, Computer Vision, PyTorch, TensorFlow.

Mc Lean, VA21 days ago

Remote

$160,000–$187,000 Per Year

A Principal Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End exhibits influential skills to shape future work streams within the current customer base, while maintaining a strategic vision to successfully pursue new business opportunities. In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above.

Arlington, VA30+ days ago

$230,000–$368,000 Per Year

Pay Ranges Arlington, Virginia: $230,000 - $368,000 USD Boston, Massachusetts: $230,000 - $368,000 USD Miami, Florida: $200,000 - $320,000 USD Purchase, New York: $230,000 - $368,000 USD Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Title and Summary Senior Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture Overview: Mastercard’s Data & Analytics is seeking a visionary and results-oriented Senior Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture to lead the design and evolution of Mastercard’s enterprise data architecture.

Chantilly, VA30+ days ago

Possess extensive application development experience, and software engineering and architecture expertise using multiple program languages (e.g., C, C++, C#, ASP.Net, Java, JavaScript, SQL, jQuery, XML, Perl, YAML, and JSON). Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field; or equivalent experience plus 10+ years of programming experience; or Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience.

Chantilly, Virginia30+ days ago

$170,000–$190,000 Per Year

The ideal professional will have extensive experience supporting, developing, presenting, and defending highly-secure mobile application systems and play a critcial role in shaping the direction and success of the mission. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Richmond, VA30+ days ago

You will operate at the intersection of hands-on engineering excellence and strategic technical leadership — contributing directly to complex features while shaping how the entire engineering organization builds, scales, and operates its software. + Cloud and Infrastructure: Deep hands-on experience with AWS or Azure including serverless compute, managed messaging (SQS/SNS/Service Bus), managed databases, and cost optimization.

Dulles, VA30+ days ago

Argo Cyber is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to sustain and operate a network operations environment, including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Candidates selected for employment in positions requiring access to sensitive or classified information may also be subject to additional U.S. Government background investigations and security adjudication processes, including DHS Entry on Duty (EOD) suitability or equivalent federal clearance requirements.

Herndon, VA30+ days ago

Candidate will perform test-driven software engineering and development activities associated with designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing analytic systems using an Agile DevSecOps model. Experienced front-end software engineer to develop services using modern techniques such as REST, JSON, Python, JavaScript Web UI frameworks (e.g., JQuery, Angular, React), and Docker.

Arlington, VA30+ days ago

Candidates will demonstrate practical experience designing, developing, and deploying tools intersecting command and control, persistence, and networking. Zetier is seeking Principal CNO Software Engineers to develop operationally critical cyber capabilities.

Arlington, VA30+ days ago

$204,000–$284,000 Per Year

Reverse engineering complex software or firmware targets, ranging from typical Windows/Linux binaries to embedded firmware running non-traditional computer architectures and operating systems. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate's experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.

Arlington, Virginia21 days ago

$114,000–$231,000 Per Year

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT), provider of cutting-edge cloud-based integration, automated testing and data analysis for complex, mission-critical systems in the US Department of Defense (DOD), is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be part of our Advanced Capabilities team and based out of our Arlington, VA location. What You Will Do: What You Will Do: Support full development lifecycle including system design, implementation, integration, test, and deployment of complex systems supporting DoD and Navy operational.

Charlottesville, VA28 days ago

Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in computer science, information systems or related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; twelve or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, ten or more years of experience with a masters degree, or seven or more years with a PhD. In the first phase, the Deputy Chief Engineer will build a deep understanding of the mission, architecture, technical risks, and organizational landscape, while becoming a trusted partner to the current Chief Engineer and engineering leadership team.

Arlington, VA30+ days ago

$135,000–$231,000 Per Year
Full-time

About The Role: Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT), provider of cutting-edge cloud-based integration, automated testing and data analysis for complex, mission-critical systems in the US Department of Defense (DOD), is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be part of our Advanced Capabilities team and based out of our Arlington, VA location. About Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT):Leveraging advanced software automation, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and AI-driven capabilities, IDT accelerates capability development, enhances operational readiness, and reduces lifecycle costs for the Department of Defense.

Herndon, VA30+ days ago

For Senior Principal Level: Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 7+ years of relevant experience OR A PhD with 41+ years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement. For Principal Level: Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience OR A PhD with no experience; an additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement.

Richmond, VA16 days ago

The Senior Software Engineer works closely with a global team of engineers to build robust solutions that meet our business objectives following continuous integration and continuous deployment processes, while supporting software and associate software engineers. Subject to their specialization, this Senior Software Engineer leads the design, development, testing, publishing, and/or support of different cloud-based products and solutions and serves as subject matter expertise for customer implementation and cloud platform support.

Herndon, VA30+ days ago

A Bachelor's degree and 9 years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 7 years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 4 years of relevant experience; An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement . o Help write and maintain scripts for process improvements (ex: stage/unstage builds, branch tag automation, automating variance corrections across networks).

Chantilly, VA30+ days ago

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Rocket Lab Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. Our Space Systems business designs and builds our extensive line of satellites, payloads, and their components, including spacecraft that have been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and components used on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Manassas, VA30+ days ago

Electra.aero is seeking a Principal Flight Controls Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority and flight controls certification subject‑matter expert for the EL9 Ultra Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft. At Electra, we're pioneering sustainable aviation by developing hybrid-electric Ultra Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft designed to transform regional air mobility by making air travel more efficient, quieter, and environmentally friendly.

Richmond, VA30+ days ago

Remote

You will work on a diverse technology stack that spans low-level embedded systems and high-level server-side platforms, designing solutions to enable continuous self-testing, autonomous software updates, real-time data reporting, and seamless integration between factory systems and vehicle platforms. The Digital Manufacturing Systems team is seeking a highly motivated Principal Diagnostics Engineer to play a key role in imagining, inventing, and implementing cutting-edge technology that manufactures the next generation of Ford vehicles.

Fairfax, VA30+ days ago

This individual will provide systems engineering leadership across R&D and product development programs, play a key role in shaping technology and product roadmaps, and contribute to high-impact strategic business opportunities. We are seeking a talented, self-driven, and technically exceptional Principal Systems Engineer to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams in the development of complex electronic systems for space applications.

Reston, Virginia30+ days ago

What You’ll Do: Contribute to the Technical Roadmap and support the design, implement, and operate the Ground Resource Manager (GRM) and Flight Management System (FMS) software components required to meet the SDA PWSA (Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture) mission objectives. As a Product Owner on the Ground System Development team, you’ll be responsible for managing multiple activities and projects, including those with cross-functional teams, to deliver customer-driven Ground System Management Systems.

Richmond, VA30+ days ago

$163,900–$235,550 Per Year

Operating at a principal level, this role goes well beyond traditional requirements gathering—serving as a trusted advisor, systems strategist, and transformation leader across large, multi-phase programs involving D365 Finance & Operations, and integrated enterprise platforms. This role partners closely with Finance and Go To Market teams and IT leadership to translate complex business objectives into scalable, compliant, and future-ready system solutions.

Dahlgren, VA30+ days ago

Required specialized experience is required in such programs as Aegis Combat and Weapon Systems, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (ABMD), Ship Self Defense System (SSDS), Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), NIFC-CA, DDG-1000, Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) or US Coast Guard. Experience Required: Successful candidates must have a minimum of 25-30 years US Navy surface warfare experience gained while on active duty senior enlisted or officer serving on carriers, DDGs, CGs, LCS, large deck or smaller amphibious ships, or land based test sites, etc.

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Manassas, VA4 days ago

Our Ultra Short technology unlocks thousands of new operating locations and enables what we call Direct Aviation: quiet, point-to-point regional travel that gets people from where they are to where they want to go, without the congestion of major airports or the noise of conventional aviation. This is a hands-on leadership role - you'll mentor junior engineers, own the architecture of our simulation labs, and build the data management and automated test processes that engineering depends on to move the EL9 toward certification.

Manassas, VA23 days ago

Manassas, VA30+ days ago

This role will be responsible for the aircraftelectrical systems - including power distribution, energy storage, conversion, and system safety protections - ensuring reliable, certifiable, and high-performance operation across the full aircraft lifecycle. At Electra, we're pioneering sustainable aviation by developing hybrid-electric Ultra Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft designed to transform regional air mobility, by making air travel more efficient, quieter, and environmentally friendly.

Manassas, VA23 days ago

Embedded in our Integrated Product Development Team (IPDT), your focus will be on electrical and avionics systems installation, applying DFM and DFA principles to enable efficient, scalable final assembly operations - and ensuring production test processes are built in from day one. Our Ultra Short technology unlocks thousands of new operating locations and enables what we call Direct Aviation: quiet, point-to-point regional travel that gets people from where they are to where they want to go, without the congestion of major airports or the noise of conventional aviation.

Fairfax, VA29 days ago

Remote

The ideal candidate is a recognized expert in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and deep learning, with proven experience integrating these capabilities into end-to-end enterprise solutions that process and extract value from large volumes of unstructured data. As a Principal Engineer, you will drive innovation, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineering teams, and work closely with product, leadership, and customers to translate complex business challenges into robust AI/ML solutions.

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Dahlgren, VA2 days ago

Experience Required: Successful candidates must have a minimum of 20-25 years civil service or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) experience; US Navy surface warfare experience gained while on active duty senior enlisted or officer, serving on carriers, DDGs, CGs, LCS, large deck or smaller amphibious ships, or land-based test sites, etc. or some combination of both to meet the 20-25 years' requirement. Description of Duties: This position will provide senior level systems engineering and analysis support to the Combined Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Trainer (CIAT) providing direct support to the Lead Baseline Manager who is responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of new CIAT software baselines.

McLean, VA30+ days ago

Remote

Raft (https://TeamRaft.com) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions. With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem.

Tysons, VA30+ days ago

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Reston, VA28 days ago

Remote

Certifications in software engineering, computer science, or related fields (e.g., Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP); Certified Scrum Developer (CSD); Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer; Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP); C++ Certified Associate Programmer (CPA); Professional Software Developer Certification (PSD); etc.). The candidate will implement, test, and maintain components of production software pipeline — a stream ingestion, rollup, and post-processing system operating on NDF (Network Description File) data produced by TDMA network sensors in dense, contested RF environments.

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Narrows, VA5 days ago

The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise in pulp technology to support acetate manufacturing operations and advance Technology & Innovation (T&I) initiatives. Direct laboratory testing of various wood pulp supplies for suitability for use in acetate flake production including trials at the Manufacturing level.

Chantilly, VA8 days ago

With offices in Northern Virginia, Melbourne, Florida, Tel Aviv, Israel, and other strategic locations, REDLattice is growing rapidly to meet the evolving needs of our customers. REDLattice is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support vulnerability research and reverse engineering efforts focused on vehicle-related technologies and systems.

Fairfax, Virginia15 days ago

$100,000–$180,000 Per Year

Position Overview: Riverside Research Institute is currently seeking an Embedded Android Software Engineer to support and execute cutting-edge firmware development in embedded and mobile network security hardware on behalf of the Riverside Research Open Innovation Center (OIC). The ideal candidate will have experience working in dynamic research and development (R&D) environments, from ideation through execution, and designing and delivering innovative secure networking and cryptographic solutions to national security customers.

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