Job Requirements
Fort Meade, MD
Top Secret/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
Career Level not specified
$187,000 - $204,000
Job Description
Base salary is $187,000–$204,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$51,000 per year).
Total compensation: $234,000–$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions).
Our client is hiring a Signals Software Engineer to build and enhance signal processing software, including
detectors, demodulators, and protocol processors, for SIGINT mission systems. The engineer works independently or within a team and may lead development efforts. They contribute to system design and help diagnose problems across RF processing systems and the enterprise architecture around them.
Key responsibilities
Signal processing development:
- Design and implement signal processing algorithms, including complex ones with strict timing,
resource, or interface constraints.
- Apply signal processing techniques to convert and process signals, and identify digital modulation
schemes.
- Design signal processing software even when documentation is thin.
- Build and maintain software frameworks that process data efficiently.
- Write software in C++ and Java, and recommend other languages when a problem calls for them.
Software engineering:
- Derive software design and performance requirements from user needs.
- Write new code or add features to existing software; debug and correct defects.
- Modify software to fix errors, support new hardware, or improve performance.
- Integrate existing software into new or changed systems and environments.
- Use scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure design outcomes.
- Analyze system flow, data usage, and work processes, and dig into problem areas.
Testing, troubleshooting, and quality:
- Help develop and run test procedures for software components, and document the results.
- Pinpoint the source of problems in RF processing systems and connected enterprise systems.
- Perform quality control on products, and write and review software and system documentation.
Collaboration and leadership:
- Work with systems and software engineers to define requirements, interfaces, project limits, and
performance needs.
- Lead one or more development teams at the level the program's process calls for.
- Recommend and implement improvements to documentation and development standards.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate is a software engineer with deep RF and DSP grounding who moves comfortably
between signal theory and production code.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Four additional years of signals software
engineering on projects with similar development processes may substitute for the degree.
- 7+ years as a signals software engineer, or equivalent, on RF-focused projects.
- Experience with Fourier transforms, filtering, communications theory, digital modulation, and error control coding.
- Digital signal processing experience, such as adaptive beamforming and filtering, and demodulation.
- Familiarity with signals analysis tools (e.g., WVT, DVT).
- Strong C++ and Java, and an advanced understanding of Linux.
- TS/SCI with a current Full Scope Polygraph at the time of application.
Compensation and benefits
Base salary is $187,000–$204,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$51,000 per year).
Total compensation: $234,000–$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions).
Total compensation: $234,000–$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions).
Our client is hiring a Signals Software Engineer to build and enhance signal processing software, including
detectors, demodulators, and protocol processors, for SIGINT mission systems. The engineer works independently or within a team and may lead development efforts. They contribute to system design and help diagnose problems across RF processing systems and the enterprise architecture around them.
Key responsibilities
Signal processing development:
- Design and implement signal processing algorithms, including complex ones with strict timing,
resource, or interface constraints.
- Apply signal processing techniques to convert and process signals, and identify digital modulation
schemes.
- Design signal processing software even when documentation is thin.
- Build and maintain software frameworks that process data efficiently.
- Write software in C++ and Java, and recommend other languages when a problem calls for them.
Software engineering:
- Derive software design and performance requirements from user needs.
- Write new code or add features to existing software; debug and correct defects.
- Modify software to fix errors, support new hardware, or improve performance.
- Integrate existing software into new or changed systems and environments.
- Use scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure design outcomes.
- Analyze system flow, data usage, and work processes, and dig into problem areas.
Testing, troubleshooting, and quality:
- Help develop and run test procedures for software components, and document the results.
- Pinpoint the source of problems in RF processing systems and connected enterprise systems.
- Perform quality control on products, and write and review software and system documentation.
Collaboration and leadership:
- Work with systems and software engineers to define requirements, interfaces, project limits, and
performance needs.
- Lead one or more development teams at the level the program's process calls for.
- Recommend and implement improvements to documentation and development standards.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate is a software engineer with deep RF and DSP grounding who moves comfortably
between signal theory and production code.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Four additional years of signals software
engineering on projects with similar development processes may substitute for the degree.
- 7+ years as a signals software engineer, or equivalent, on RF-focused projects.
- Experience with Fourier transforms, filtering, communications theory, digital modulation, and error control coding.
- Digital signal processing experience, such as adaptive beamforming and filtering, and demodulation.
- Familiarity with signals analysis tools (e.g., WVT, DVT).
- Strong C++ and Java, and an advanced understanding of Linux.
- TS/SCI with a current Full Scope Polygraph at the time of application.
Compensation and benefits
Base salary is $187,000–$204,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$51,000 per year).
Total compensation: $234,000–$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions).
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