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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Str Limited
- **Location:** Woburn, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $134,000.0 - $184,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Unit Testing, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, C++ (Programming Language), Static Program Analysis, Program Optimization, Nvidia CUDA, Computer Programming, Continuous Delivery, Software Debugging, General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Performance Tuning, Software Tools, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Subversion, Systems Integration, ZeroMQ (Concurrent Programming Libraries), Multithreading, Real Time Systems, Git, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/2b201fd0-6d44-4c40-9b9e-fcafd9d12e0f/senior-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Ability to obtain a Top Secret (TS) Security Clearance, for which U.S Citizenship is needed by the U.S government
 * Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of applicable experience; Master's degree and at least 3 years of applicable experience; or PhD. Equivalent experience will be considered
 * Object oriented programming skills in C/C++
 * Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python as well as other higher-level languages
 * Math and algorithm skills
 * Experience using source code management (Git, Subversion)
 * Proficiency in multithreaded programming, thread safety, and thread synchronization

Even Better:

 * Active Security Clearance at the Secret or Top Secret (TS) level
 * 5+ years of programming experience, especially with open architecture software projects
 * Experience integrating, troubleshooting and de-bugging software used in RF, acoustic, optical, medical, or other electro-mechanical systems
 * Software design/architecting team leadership experience
 * Proficiency in communication libraries (ZeroMQ, DDS, MPI) & C-code optimization for GPP & GPU processing architectures
 * GPGPU (CUDA) experience; Intel math and performance optimization libraries (MKL, IPP); Generic math libraries (BLAS, LAPACK)
 * Software development tools including continuous build, unit testing frameworks, static and dynamic code analysis
 * Experience with algorithm optimization for real time systems, especially radar or remote sensing

## Description

STR is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to be part of a multi-disciplinary team that transforms large and complex customer data into real-world, high-impact solutions. A Senior Software Engineer works with researchers and engineers to design and implement solutions to challenging national security problems. Additionally, you will be responsible for building the software infrastructure to translate scenario planning capability into an end user capability; deploying algorithms, generating workflows, creating engineer-facing tools, and designing customer-facing systems.

Due to the nature of this role, candidates should expect to work primarily onsite out of our Woburn, MA office.

What you will do:

 * Work as part of a small, focused team to architect, develop, implement, and test real-time applications featuring open architecture software principles
 * Implement real-time systems in C/C++ and Python from verified algorithms written in higher-level languages
 * Build, Test, troubleshoot and resolve issues
 * Develop communication infrastructure and signal processing abstraction libraries
 * Test software to ensure correct implementation and/or compliance to requirements


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