Poly

Amentum•Savage, MD

1d•$200,000 - $255,000

About The Position

Amentum is seeking a motivated Principal Software Engineer to support the exciting Advanced Analytics Team mission. The engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to analyze software requirements, design innovative technical solutions, develop software applications, and implement high-performance capabilities supporting advanced mission objectives.

Requirements

Develop and debug software using object-oriented programming languages.
Perform software engineering and technical design activities.
Analyze and understand legacy code.
Develop efficient algorithms utilizing data structures, dynamic programming, heuristics, and modeling techniques.
Proficiency with Python, and ability to read/understand C/C++, and Assembly (x86).
Experience with software architecture, operating system design, compilers, and debugging.
Comfortable working with operating system internals, low-level software development, file I/O, system APIs, memory management, and executable program analysis.
TS/SCI Poly Security Clearance Required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with malware analysis, reverse engineering, and protocol analysis.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications supporting mission requirements.
Analyze customer needs, develop software prototypes, engineer technical solutions, implement algorithms, and translate conceptual designs into scalable software architectures.
Conduct software testing and troubleshooting.
Work at the operating system level, including file I/O, system interfaces, and low-level programming concepts.
Develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, malware analysis, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software.
Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.