Software Engineer (Associate or Senior Associate)

VTG Defense
United States, Virginia, Manassas
Jun 30, 2026
Overview VTG is seeking a an Associate or Senior Associate Software Engineer to work with our software for modeling acoustic beampatterns for submarine sonar arrays. The SW is primarily Python-based and is containerized and hosted in a Kubernetes environment. This role will involve developing and updating interfaces between front end and back end, updating the code architecture to scale up and enable more parallel instances, configuring the code to work with GPUs, and various other performance updates. Tasking may also include some GUI development and updating the tool to work on additional systems and platforms. This position will support our customer inManassas, VA. What will you do? Develop and maintain interfaces as the backend tool scales and evolves SW performance and architecture updates Communicate requirements and interface definitions clearly with cross-company partners Do you have what it takes? Required Qualifications: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or similar Proficient with Python Proficient with RESTful/gRPC Experience with Linux systems Excellent verbal and written communication skills Initiative, innovation, and resourcefulness Successful completion of background check Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance Must be a U.S. citizen Desired Qualifications/Skills/Abilities: One+ years relevant specificallywith SQL or NoSQL Knowledgeable with modern PaaS environment tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, KVM, and Helm Experience with CuPy or Numba for writing GPU kernels in Python Experience with Python's multiprocessing library Experience with shell scripting languages VTG's estimated starting pay range is $75,000-$110,000 which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.