Principal Software Engineer TS​/SCI w​/Poly

Principal Software Engineer – Advanced Analytics Team

Purpose and impact:
Amentum seeks a motivated Principal Software Engineer to support the Advanced Analytics Team mission. The Engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to analyze software requirements, design innovative technical solutions, develop software applications, and implement high‑performance capabilities supporting advanced mission objectives.

• 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.

• Proficiency in object‑oriented programming languages; ability to develop and debug software.
• Experience with 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.
• Develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, malware analysis, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software.
• Proficiency with Python; ability to read and 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.

• Familiarity with malware analysis, reverse engineering, and protocol analysis.

TS/SCI Poly required.

Doctoral degree plus 7 years;
Master’s degree plus 9 years;
Bachelor’s degree plus 11 years;
Associate’s degree plus 13 years;
High school diploma/GED plus 15 years.

200,000 – 255,000 USD

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
• Educational reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tax‑saving options
• Disability and life insurance
• Pet insurance

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.