Senior Core Systems Engineer

Nyla Technology Solutions•Annapolis Junction, MD

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on Team Nyla, you will bring your technical creativity and collaborative energy to design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software components tailored to exact customer needs. Working independently or alongside a team of brilliant, ever-curious engineers, you’ll tackle everything from hardware/software trade-offs and COTS/GOTS integration to end-to-end component testing and problem resolution. If you are passionate about continuous learning, rapid impact, and engineering elegance, you'll fit right in.

Requirements

ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED
Proven ability to build, maintain, and enhance complex software systems using industry-standard design methodologies across the full development lifecycle.
Hands-on experience reviewing code, resolving software problem reports (SPRs), and testing software components against documented design requirements.
Track record of analyzing system-level requirements and breaking them down into modular software components, including evaluating hardware/software trade-offs and software reuse.
Ability to evaluate and integrate Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solutions in place of custom development where optimal.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 14 + years of professional software engineering experience OR High School Diploma / GED , PLUS 18+ years of hands-on technical software development experience in lieu of a degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing for processing-intensive analytics, algorithm-heavy workflows, or real-time systems.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, or big data processing framework tools.
Active involvement in continuous learning, prototype development, or emerging tech exploration.
Outstanding communication skills with a team-first, collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

Design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software components tailored to exact customer needs.
Tackle hardware/software trade-offs and COTS/GOTS integration.
Perform end-to-end component testing and problem resolution.
Review code.
Resolve software problem reports (SPRs).
Test software components against documented design requirements.
Analyze system-level requirements and break them down into modular software components.
Evaluate hardware/software trade-offs and software reuse.
Evaluate and integrate Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solutions in place of custom development where optimal.