Associate Software Engineer with Security Clearance

About the Role

VTG is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to work with software for modeling acoustic beampatterns for submarine sonar arrays. The software is primarily Python-based and is containerized and hosted in a Kubernetes environment. This role will involve developing and updating interfaces between front end and back end, updating the code architecture to scale up and enable more parallel instances, configuring the code to work with GPUs, and various other performance updates. Tasking may also include some GUI development and updating the tool to work on additional systems and platforms. This position will support our customer in Manassas, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain interfaces as the backend tool scales and evolves
• Software performance and architecture updates
• Communicate requirements and interface definitions clearly with cross-company partners

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficient with Python
• Proficient with RESTful/gRPC
• Experience with Linux systems
• US Citizen with current DoD Secret Clearance
• Successful completion of background check

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or similar
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Initiative, innovation, and resourcefulness

Desired Skills/Abilities

• One+ years relevant experience with SQL or NoSQL
• Knowledgeable with modern PaaS environment tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, KVM, and Helm
• Experience with CuPy or Numba for writing GPU kernels in Python
• Experience with Python's multiprocessing library
• Experience with shell scripting languages