Senior Core Systems Engineer

Nyla Technology Solutions; Maryland; On-site; USD 190,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Nyla Technology Solutions in Columbia, Maryland seeks a Software Engineer to design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software components tailored to customer needs. Work independently or with a team to tackle trade-offs, COTS/GOTS integration, and end-to-end testing.

An active TS/SCI polygraph clearance is required. The base salary range is $190,000–$224,000 per year (USD), with discretionary bonus opportunity and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field with 14+ years of professional software experience, OR High School Diploma/GED with 18+ years of hands-on development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and enhance complex software components tailored to customer needs.
• Tackle hardware/software trade-offs, COTS/GOTS integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure robust, scalable software solutions.

Skills

Problem Solving

System Synthesis

COTS/GOTS Integration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

High School Diploma / GED

Job description

Job Description

ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED

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.

The annual base salary range for this role is $190,000-$224,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

Required Skills

• Problem Solving & Testing: Hands-on experience reviewing code, resolving software problem reports (SPRs), and testing software components against documented design requirements.
• System Trade-off & Synthesis Analysis: Track record of analyzing system-level requirements and breaking them down into modular software components, including evaluating hardware/software trade-offs and software reuse.
• COTS/GOTS Integration: Ability to evaluate and integrate Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solutions in place of custom development where optimal.

Education: 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.

Desired Skills

• 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.

About Nyla Technology Solutions

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry. We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done.

If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla’s team,

Taking Care of All of You

• Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.
• The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule.
• PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!
• LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!
• SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It's flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!
• WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS? Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place.

Nyla is an equal opportunity employer.