Cyber Systems Engineer

Metrea•Annapolis Junction, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars: Support Groups, Core Groups, and Market Groups. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs. We're hiring a software engineer to build the systems behind our edge sensing and secure-communications products. You'll spend most of your time writing production code, designing services and data pipelines, researching new technologies, and making distributed software run reliably on constrained Linux devices in the real world. This is a builder's role. You'll own technical problems end to end—from rough requirements to shipped, tested, deployable code—and work closely with engineers who live at the intersection of software, networking, and wireless. If you like turning hard, loosely-defined problems into clean systems that actually run in the field, you'll fit here.

Requirements

Proficiency in Rust, Python, and Bash
Experience building backend, systems, or distributed software
Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, sockets, packet-level behavior)
Real fluency in Linux—services, processes, debugging, and performance tuning
Ability to work independently and deliver from loosely defined requirements
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
This position requires eligibility to obtain a Top Secret / TS/SCI clearance. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements. Employment is contingent on meeting all clearance and adjudication requirements.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, BLE, cellular, SDR)
Experience with edge or embedded systems (e.g., ARM, Jetson, Raspberry Pi)
Working knowledge of C# and/or JavaScript
Exposure to security-focused engineering, red teaming, or penetration testing

Responsibilities

Write production Rust for real-time data ingestion, processing, and device control
Design and build modular services and APIs that span edge devices and backend infrastructure
Build data pipelines that feed analysis and automation
Integrate your software with network stacks, wireless tooling, and external data sources
Implement automation frameworks—rule-based workflows, triggers, and orchestration
Deploy and tune software on resource-constrained Linux systems, and debug system-level, networking, and performance issues when they surface
Prototype quickly and iterate as requirements evolve
Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and field teams to make the whole system work as one