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Software Engineer with Security Clearance

Zeta Associates
Fairfax, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/31/2026
The candidate must have 10 years of experience in the design and implementation of software systems. The candidate will apply protocol and telecom signaling knowledge and technical expertise to provide mission oriented customer solutions. The candidate should have experience with C/C and Java programming languages in a large, distributed, real-time system, and Python, and shell scripting on Linux/Unix environments, using configuration management (GIT) to manage processes. Detailed knowledge of cellular technologies (including LTE, UMTS, GPRS, GSM and CDMA), both air interface and wire line traffic, central office networking (SONET/SDH), numerical algorithms, and encryption are highly desired. The candidate should be experienced in all aspects of code design, implementation, testing, analysis, and debugging. Experience with telematics is highly desired. Other IoT/mobile m2m communications experience is a strong 2nd preference. Required 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. 
  • Experienced in Linux, Python, C, C . 
  • Experience in network protocol analysis. Desired Experience 
  • Cellular communications or reverse engineering experience is highly desired Key Words 
  • Linux - LTE, UMTS, GPRS, GSM and CDMA - SONET/SDH 
  • C/C , Java 
  • Python, Linux shell scripting

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