Cyber Systems Engineer

Metrea


Job Location:

Howard County, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 15 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.


GroupOverview

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C)is responsible fordeveloping flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industrys leading signals intelligence electronic warfare and cyber in signal classification direction finding advanced geolocation techniques and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD develops special purpose radios for government customers andlicensesDF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

Position Summary

Were hiring a software engineer to build the systems behind our edge sensing and secure-communications products. Youll spend most of your time writing production code designing services and data pipelines researching new technologies and making distributed software run reliably on constrained Linux devices in the real world. This is a builders role. Youll own technical problems end to endfrom rough requirements to shipped tested deployable codeand work closely with engineers who live at the intersection of software networking and wireless. If you like turning hard loosely-defined problems into clean systems that actually run in the field youll fit here.

What Youll Do

  • Write production Rust for real-time data ingestion processing and device control
  • Design and build modular services and APIs that span edge devices and backend infrastructure
  • Build data pipelines that feed analysis and automation
  • Integrate your software with network stacks wireless tooling and external data sources
  • Implement automation frameworksrule-based workflows triggers and orchestration
  • Deploy and tune software on resource-constrained Linux systems and debug system-level networking and performance issues when they surface
  • Prototype quickly and iterate as requirements evolve
  • Collaborate with hardware firmware and field teams to make the whole system work as one

What You Bring

  • Proficiency in Rust Python and Bash
  • Experience building backend systems or distributed software
  • Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP sockets packet-level behavior)
  • Real fluency in Linuxservices processes debugging and performance tuning
  • Ability to work independently and deliver from loosely defined requirements

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

  • Familiarity with wireless technologies (Wi-Fi BLE cellular SDR)
  • Experience with edge or embedded systems (e.g. ARM Jetson Raspberry Pi)
  • Working knowledge of C# and/or JavaScript
  • Exposure to security-focused engineering red teaming or penetration testing

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical plan options
  • HSA/FSA accounts
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • 6% employer 401(k) match
  • Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Generous PTO
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
  • AD&D Coverage
  • Pet Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • This position requires eligibility to obtain a Top Secret / TS/SCI clearance. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements. Employment is contingent on meeting all clearance and adjudication requirements.

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Algorithmics LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

PositionTypeandExpectedHoursofWork

This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs

Work Environment

This job operates in an office and field environment. Some assignments may require work in austere forward-deployed or operationally dynamic settings.

Travel

Up to 10% travel CONUS and OCONUS


Required Experience:

IC

Company OverviewMetrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own t...

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