Athenix Cyber & SIGINT is seeking a senior-level Software Engineer to support a large program in the Annapolis Junction, MD area.

The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects.
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams.
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering.
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software.
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance.

Minimum Requirements:

• Twenty (20) years' experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• A Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. In lieu of a degree, four (4) years of additional Systems Engineering experience may be substituted for a Bachelors degree.
• A minimum six (6) years demonstrated experience out of the most recent 8 years developing production software for one of the following environments: Solaris, or Linux OS.
• Six years (6) of experience developing software using the Java programming language or C or C++.
• Experience with voice or video processing systems requiring ingest of multiple audio and video formats, playback to end users, storage, and retrieval.
• Experience with average ingest, storage, content search and retrieval of 500GB/day or more of multilingual text.
• Experience with distributed peer to peer content storage and retrieval systems with more than 500 nodes.
• Experience with metadata indexing, metadata summarization, content and metadata data mining, visualization and analytics.
• Demonstrated work experience developing RESTful services.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.