Principal Engineer

Our client is a growing Gov Con seeking a Principal Engineer to join their team. This role is based onsite in Northern VA. This role will be responsible with integrating systems that lack a common interface; reverse engineering subsystems; developing custom toolchains that accelerate the speed of development; or developing new approaches to infrastructure that handle heterogeneous deployment needs.. Experience in a small government contracting environment is a plus.

This is a permanent, direct hire opportunity. Candidates should be eligible to hold security clearance, existing clearance holders are preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Performing hands-on technical work including design and development of algorithmically complex software, performance profiling, optimization, and general troubleshooting for a variety of software stacks spanning from Java and C++ to project-specific Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
• Supporting demonstration and testing of software in lab and test events
• Mentor junior team members in growth of technical and program expertise
• Create documentation and test suites to help warfighters and co-contractors leverage our solutions

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building robust and maintainable software to solve algorithmically complex problems

• Proficiency in C++ or Java

• Fundamentals of computer and network security basics