Principal Software Engineer – On-Site, Fort Meade (TS/SCI w/ Poly)

ARSIEM Corporation; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 216,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

ARSIEM Corporation seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join the Advanced Analytics Team at Fort Meade, MD. This on-site, full-time role focuses on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software aligned with mission requirements.

You will analyze needs with stakeholders, develop high-performance solutions, and apply Python, C/C++, and Assembly skills across complex systems. A TS/SCI with polygraph and US citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 11+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Python, 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.

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.
• 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; conduct software testing and troubleshooting; work at the operating system level, including file I/O, system interfaces, and low-level programming concepts; and develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, malware analysis, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Assembly

Software architecture

Operating system design

Compilers

Debugging

Low-level development

File I/O

System APIs

Memory management

Education

Bachelor's degree

11+ years of experience or equivalent

Job description

ARSIEM Corporation seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join the Advanced Analytics Team at Fort Meade, MD. This on-site, full-time role focuses on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software aligned with mission requirements.

You will analyze needs with stakeholders, develop high-performance solutions, and apply Python, C/C++, and Assembly skills across complex systems. A TS/SCI with polygraph and US citizenship are required.