Associate Software Engineer

VT Group (VTG); Manassas (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VT Group (VTG) in Manassas, VA seeks an Associate Software Engineer to model acoustic beampatterns for submarine sonar arrays. The Python-based software is containerized and hosted in Kubernetes, with GPU kernels using CuPy/Numba.

You will develop interfaces between front end and back end and scale the codebase for more parallel instances. Responsibilities include performance tuning, architectural updates, and collaboration with cross-company partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree 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.

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.

Skills

Python

Linux

Communication

Initiative

RESTful/gRPC

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Podman

KVM

Helm

CuPy

Numba

Job description

Overview

• 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
  

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.

Manassas, VA.

What will you do?

• 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
  

Do you have what it takes?

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
  

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
  

VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $75,000-$90,000 which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.