Associate Software Engineer

Overview:

VTG is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to work with our software for modeling acoustic beampatterns for submarine sonar arrays. The SW is primarily Python-based and is containerized and hosted in a Kubernetes environment. This role will involve developing and updating interfaces between front end and back end, updating the code architecture to scale up and enable more parallel instances, configuring the code to work with GPUs, and various other performance updates. Tasking may also include some GUI development and updating the tool to work on additional systems and platforms. This position will support our customer in Manassas, VA.

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain interfaces as the backend tool scales and evolves

SW performance and architecture updates

Communicate requirements and interface definitions clearly with cross-company partners

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or similar

Proficient with Python

Proficient with RESTful/gRPC

Experience with Linux systems

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Initiative, innovation, and resourcefulness

Successful completion of background check

Must be a US Citizen with current DoD Secret Clearance or ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance

Desired Qualifications/Skills/Abilities:

One+ years relevant specifically experience with SQL or NoSQL

Knowledgeable with modern PaaS environment tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, KVM, and Helm

Experience with CuPy or Numba for writing GPU kernels in Python

Experience with Python’s multiprocessing library

Experience with shell scripting languages