Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab - Laurel, MD
posted 4 months ago
Are you passionate about building impactful solutions for our greatest national security challenges? Do you value working in a creative, collaborative environment? Are you searching for engaging work and an opportunity for leadership with an employer that prioritizes impact, innovation, and personal development? If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL! We develop software systems to address challenging national security problems that enable planning and decision making in domains as diverse as active threat deterrence, signal intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and applied data analytics. We seek talented engineers who can work with a team to construct, implement, test, document, and maintain software applications that provide highly impactful capabilities for the special operations and intelligence community. As a Lead Software Developer, you will: Architect microservice-based software systems with a focus on maintainability and operational reliability. Implement desktop and web-based, user-facing software applications. Mentor junior staff in software design and best practices for implementation and operations. Work closely with signal processing and communication engineers to develop solutions that support sponsor needs. Document work in technical reports and informal memoranda as well as present work to sponsors and the technical community. Participate in field evaluation of applications and iterate based on performance and in response to emergent technical and operational requirements.