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Principal Systems Engineer Jobs in District of Columbia

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Washington, Washington, DC8 days ago

At BigBear.ai, you’ll join a team of technologists and mission-focused problem solvers building tools that turn massive volumes of structured and unstructured data into actionable intelligence. Overview: BigBear.ai is hiring a Principal Systems Administrator to support GALE (Generic Area Limitation Environment)—a mission-critical capability used by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC).

Washington, Washington, DC28 days ago

$160,000–$200,000 Per Year

Knowledge of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile operating systems including iOS and Android, application behaviors, and network traffic analysis to identify malware exploits. Additional Job Information: TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

As a Marine Engineer, you will receive technical guidance and training from the more experienced technical staff and apply your marine engineering experience to perform analyses and prepare engineering deliverables in support of the design of ships, craft, and other floating structures. + Develop machinery arrangements and configurations illustrating primary functional allocation of spaces within the ship considering locations and adjacency constraints, perform special studies including access and maintenance analyses, assist in detailed layouts of machinery spaces.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

As an Associate Marine Engineer, you will work in our Arlington, VA office and receive technical guidance and training from the more experienced technical staff and apply basic knowledge of marine engineering to perform routine analyses and prepare engineering deliverables in support of the design of ships, craft, and other floating structures. + Develop machinery arrangements and configurations illustrating primary functional allocation of spaces within the ship considering locations and adjacency constraints, perform special studies including access and maintenance analyses, assist in detailed layouts of machinery spaces.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

As a Senior Marine Engineer, you will work in our Arlington, VA office and will join our experienced technical staff and apply your marine engineering expertise to lead projects and prepare/review engineering deliverables in support of the design of ships, craft, and other floating structures. + Review machinery arrangements and configurations (illustrating primary functional allocation of spaces within the ship considering locations and adjacency constraints) and lead special studies including access and maintenance analyses, assist in detailed layouts of machinery spaces.

Washington, Washington, DC8 days ago

$114,390–$264,300 Per Year

Responsibilities: For over 25 years, Noblis has provided specialized engineering, acquisition, and program management services to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), playing a key role in the acquisition and implementation of mission-critical systems and capabilities across the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) and the Office of NextGen (ANG). As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to projects that streamline the acquisition and deployment of next-generation air traffic management and surveillance systems, improve infrastructure at airports and in the airspace, and support the integration of unmanned aircraft systems and commercial space ventures.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:$177,900—$203,600 USDWhat We BelieveAs a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland.

Washington, DC30+ 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.

Washington, DC10 days ago

Remote

$114,500–$154,575 Per Year

Rocket Software Sales Engineers are experienced technical professionals with an extensive enterprise software sales background who can successfully be the technical sales lead on software opportunities to progress and close business, and must function well as a member of a dynamic team, while having the ability to also work independently to progress and close business. + Strong understanding of data integration concepts, especially relating to mainframe databases (such as IBM Db2, IMS, VSAM) and cloud-native databases (such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift).

Washington, DC30+ 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.

Washington DC, DC30+ days ago

By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. For example, Debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless is part of our efforts, and we want your experience to contribute to a truly exceptional customer experience.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$168,000–$210,000

Engineering for Reliability: Implement robust infrastructure to handle non-deterministic loops, including automated circuit-breakers, latency-aware orchestration (targeting P99 SLAs), and granular token/cost-observability. The Expertise: Deep hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered or agentic systems to production (utilizing frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom-built runtimes).

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$149,400–$193,644 Per Hour

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. Collaborate with project managers, Senior Principal Software Engineers, Business System Analysts, IT service owners, and leads to keep everyone updated on development efforts and issue statuses, providing technical leadership for both operational and project initiatives.

Washington, DC29 days ago

$124,600–$161,352 Per Hour

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions.

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Washington, DC3 days ago

Remote

We are seeking a highly skilled, technically proficient and detail-oriented Principal Mechanical Engineer with expertise in metal structures, frame design, pipes and fabrication to support the development of power and cooling infrastructure for data centers. Design and develop mechanical frames, enclosures, and support structures for data center power and cooling products (UPS systems, battery racks, CRAC units, containment systems, LVS, MVS).

Washington, DC30+ 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.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$148,000–$210,000

ML Infrastructure Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of model serving (e.g., Triton, vLLM, Ray Serve) and deep experience with Kubernetes and cloud ecosystems (AWS/GCP/Azure). When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace.

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Washington, DC3 days ago

Remote

This role will involve designing and developing wiring harness systems, including schematic creation, harness architecture, panel layout, developing specifications, selecting key components, and transitioning design to manufacturing. We are seeking a highly experienced and innovative Principal Controls Engineer to lead the development, optimization and implementation of advanced control systems across critical infrastructure products and automation platforms.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$124,600–$161,352 Per Hour

Act as a functional subject matter expert for iCertis contract management modules (Contract Types, Approval Workflows, e-sign processes, associated document repository, Obligation Management, and Advanced Analytics) responsible for designing, configuring, and architecting complex product enhancements. Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$193,100–$323,500 Per Year

In this role, you will work across teams and functions to define architectural direction, tackle complex engineering challenges, and deliver best-in-class solutions that help our customers derive actionable intelligence for their IT Operations (ITOps). + Lead and own the architectural vision and long-range technical direction for our on-prem ITSI solution, collaborating with executive and engineering leads to ensure alignment with Splunk’s broader Observability strategy.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$124,600–$161,352 Per Hour

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation.

UNAVAILABLE, DC30+ days ago

With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$158,500–$247,600 Per Year

Successful applicants will bring deep experience with network engineering, a readiness to work hands-on keyboard to solve challenging network problems, a strong collaborative spirit, experience successfully mentoring junior team members, superior problem-solving skills, a passion for security and data protection, and a clear focus on supporting customer needs. Experience planning, deploying, and troubleshooting WAN, firewalls, LAN, DNS, VLANs, static and dynamic IP addressing, remote and point to point VPNs in on premises, cloud and hybrid environments such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

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Washington, DCToday

Knowledge Management, Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, KMI is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. KMI is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) that specializes in Logistics, Warehouse Services, Distance Learning/Training, Enterprise Solutions, Financial Management Support, Program Management, Intelligence Analysis & Threat Assessment, and Data Analytics/Operations Research.

Washington, Washington, DC30+ days ago

$140,000–$180,000 Per Year

Preferred: Hold at least one of the following certifications: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Global Information Security Professional (GISP), or the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP), Certified Secure Software Lifecycle (CSSLP), CISSP Special Focus - Information System Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP), CISSP Special Focus - Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP), and/or other certifications exemplifying skill sets such as those described in DoD Instruction 8570.1 Services to support Information System Engineering performed by the Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) includes the following activities: Lead, mentor, and supervise a team of security professionals responsible for the end-to-end implementation of the RMF lifecycle for IT systems.

Washington, DC8 days ago

$129,200–$193,800 Per Year

As a senior subject-matter expert, this role drives equipment strategy, lifecycle planning, and system-wide performance optimization, while partnering closely with Product Development and the Principal Tooling Engineer to ensure alignment between product design, tooling, and machine capability. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

$124,600–$161,352 Per Hour

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions.

Washington, DC23 days ago

Remote

The Senior Solutions Architect is the senior technical authority responsible for the design, integration, automation, and operational success of AppGate's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) platform across U.S. Federal and DoD environments. Integrate Appgate ZTNA with third party systems and sources of trust or risk telemetry, including identity providers such as SAML, OIDC, RADIUS, LDAP, NGFWs, entitlement automation systems, SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, and others.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

Remote

$160,650–$202,300 Per Year

We help extend the value of these assets, enabling our customers to embrace the potential of cloud and mobile computing, advanced analytics, and the innovations of tomorrow. + Demonstrated history as a consistent top performer selling software solutions to senior executives with quotas in excess of 3M, selling large transactions.

Washington, DC21 days ago

Responsibilities: This role will assist Government Program Managers with daily office operations and management support functions involving planning, coordinating, and evaluating logistical and organizational actions required to support designated missions, weapons systems, and program office operations. Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management (C3BM) has been tasked with delivering an integrated Department of the Air Force (DAF) Battle Network providing resilient decision advantage and enabling the USAF, USSF, Joint, and Coalition Force to win against the pacing challenge.

Washington DC, DC30+ days ago

Mentor and Scale Field Teams: Act as a thought leader within the organization, mentoring Solutions Consultants and Forward Deployed Engineers and helping to evolve and refine our AI solution delivery best practices. • Influence Product and GTM Strategy: Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to relay field insights, identify gaps in our prebuilt agent inventory, and influence the product roadmap based on strategic customer needs.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

You will work directly with customers, engineers, and growth leaders to identify source languages and hardware target platforms for applying Code Metal’s verified code translation technology to accelerate the development and deployment of Signal Processing algorithms. Our platform accelerates deployment of DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal processing algorithms onto heterogeneous compute targets including GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs.

DC, DC15 days ago

Full-time

You’ll experience new cities, tackle unique projects, and earn all your own travel rewards while working directly with customers across North America. If you’re the kind of person who can laugh through flight delays, figure things out on the fly, and find satisfaction in solving complex problems, this might be your perfect fit.

Washington DC, DC10 days ago

$42.30–$45.83 Per Hour

The responsibilities of the Site Engineer II are: to contribute to the daily site operation, including creation and modification of site operating procedures, contribute to creation of change management tickets, creation of timely incident reporting, site maintenance and repairs/inspections to help ensure Digital Realty’s data center operations achieve the highest level of availability. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.

Washington30+ days ago

$84,000–$120,000 Per Year

This includes a wide-range of M&S assets, including: digital system representations, virtual twins, system level and combat system digital test beds throughout the detect to engage sequence, Systems Engineering (SE) and Test & Evaluation (T&E) tools, target simulations/stimulators, digital and hardware threat representations, atmospheric representations, scene generators, and data visualizations. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) or similar field Compensation: Compensation at SimVentions is determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, security clearance, work location, skills, knowledge, and competencies, as well as alignment with our corporate compensation plan and contract specific requirements.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

The Technical Director/Chief Engineer is the principal technical authority, responsible for the design, integration, and technical excellence of all software, AI/ML, and enterprise solutions. Technical Director / Chief Engineer - Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. - Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph Required.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

Includes but not limited to; identity management, medical and legal transcription, scientific encoding, environmental, scientific, maintenance and repair processes, business processes, and logistical support activities. Applies subject matter knowledge to high level analysis, collection, assessment, design, development, modeling, simulation, integration, installation, documentation, and implementation.

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Washington, Washington, DC3 days ago

$86,800–$135,625 Per Year

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. Personnel performing cybersecurity functions must meet DoD cybersecurity workforce certification requirements in accordance with DoD Manual 8140.3 for their designated role within 9 months of hire.

District of Columbia, Washington, DC28 days ago

$134,546–$205,557 Per Year

AI & Automation at Sargent & Lundy: In this role, we expect people to be willing or able to lead others who use modern tools: You are expected to lead others in taking engineering problems from issue to solution by setting expectations for using data and modern tools such as automation and AI to improve workflows, reduce rework, and deliver cost-effective designs. Leaders in these roles often direct automation and process-improvement work, for example, how teams automate calculations, summarize technical documents, or generate design documentation and guiding when and how AI or agentic AI tools are used while ensuring results are checked.

Washington, DC30+ days ago

As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications. Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world.

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Pentagon, VA6 days ago

Full-time

We support many programs and agencies as both a prime and a subcontractor and created a strong reputation working with top tier partners doing work for all major Intelligence Community agencies, DoW, and Special Operations customers. Our work is grounded in successful deployments on JWICS, NIPR, SIPR utilizing AWS, combining commercial best practices in an Agile environment to ensure we deliver impactful capabilities to senior defense leadership.

Washington DC, DC30+ days ago

Win-Team Leadership: Coordinate cross-functional teams of internal specialists to lead high-stakes Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and deliver authoritative responses to complex RFI/RFP technical requirements. • Executive Technical Consultation: Partner with C-level stakeholders and Enterprise Architects to articulate the ROI of an "API-First" strategy, focusing on security, scalability, and the productization of data.

Washington, Washington, DC30+ days ago

$71,800–$240,000 Per Year

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. Team Noblis is proud to be selected as an ATEPS awardee, enabling our team to support upcoming FAA requirements for program management, system engineering, development, and implementation efforts aimed at enhancing the safety, efficiency, and capacity of the National Airspace System (NAS).

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Principal Systems Engineer Jobs in District of Columbia

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Principal Systems AdministratorBigbear.ai

Principal Engineer w/Top Secret ClearanceTekSynap

Marine Engineer (Auxiliary & Fluid Systems) - Arlington, VASerco

Associate Marine Engineer (Auxiliary & Fluid Systems) - Arlington, VASerco

Sr Marine Engineer (Auxiliary & Fluid Systems) - Arlington, VASerco

Principal Engineer / Aviation Specialist - Multiple LevelsNoblis

Principal Engineer Senior ManagerAccenture Federal Services

Principal Software Engineer- OCI Software EcosystemOracle

Principal Sales Engineer - Data ModernizationRocket Software

Principal Diagnostics EngineerFord Motor Company

Principal Software Engineer (Networking) - PlatformElastic

Principal Engineer - Agentic AI ApplicationsSerko Ltd

Sr Principal SAP BTP Engineer - 90405295 - Washington (Washington, DC, US, 20001)Amtrak

Principal DevOps Engineer - 90372837 Onsite in Washington DC, Wilmington DE or Philadelphia PA (Washington, DC, US, 20002)Amtrak

Principal Mechanical Integration Engineer – DCI Pipes, Frames and Structures (REMOTE)JABIL CIRCUIT, INC

Sr Principal SW Development EngineerUKG

Principal Engineer - AI Platform & OperationsSerko Ltd

Principal Electrical Controls Engineer - Data Center InfrastructureJABIL CIRCUIT, INC

Principal iCertis Application Lead (Washington, DC, US, 20001)Amtrak

Principal Software Engineer - ITSICisco

Principal Software Engineer - 90402969 - Onsite - Washington DC, Wilmington DE, Philadelphia PA (Washington, DC, US, 20001)Amtrak

Principal ServiceNow EngineerSoft Tech Consulting

Principal Network Engineer (5010) (US, DC, Tampa, San Antonio) (Secret)SMX

Information Systems Security Officer - SME (cloud-based)Knowledge Management, Inc.

Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) - SeniorTekSynap

Manager, Injection Systems - Equipment & Process PerformanceAmcor

S4/HANA FICO Business Systems Analyst - Washington DC, Wilmington, Philadelphia (Washington, DC, US, 20001)Amtrak

Principal Federal Solution ArchitectGormat

Principal Account ExecutiveRocket Software

Principal Program Office Business Process Support ProfessionalOdyssey Systems Consulting Group, Ltd.

Principal AI Field ArchitectBoomi

Principal Product Manager, Signal ProcessingCode Metal

Field Service Engineer - Automation IndustryProAutomated Inc.

Site Engineer IIDigital Realty Trust

Modeling & Simulation EngineerSimVentions, Inc

Technical Director / Chief Engineer – Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. – Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph RequiredSynertex LLC

Windows Engineer - Active Top Secret clearance required to applyBow Wave LLC

Cyber Security EngineerNoblis

Lead Underground Transmission Line Engineer 2 - GridSargent & Lundy

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine LearningMeta

Driven Data EngineerBlack Cape

Senior Presales Solutions Engineer - API ManagementBoomi

FAA ATEPS (Air Traffic Engineering Program Support) – Apply if interested!Noblis

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