University of Washington

Software Engineer

Location : Seattle, WA, 98127

Job Type : Other

Date Posted : 6 November 2025

Creates new standalone applications and toolsets as needed. Serves as a technical expert in the evaluation/testing of the capabilities and requirements of existing and emerging systems.
Helps establish the technical direction, standards, and operational processes for project teams, and helps create and maintain appropriate mechanisms to monitor/control all aspects of the software and systems development lifecycle.
Provides systems design, development, programming, and consultation for distributed architecture, real-time systems, and client/server computing platforms.
Leads small project teams of 2-3 software engineers, providing feedback, correcting, and testing their work as needed.
Develop project requirements with the Technical Project Manager and the customer’s Project Manager.
Proposes new projects, applications, and features by anticipating customer needs.
Works with system and software test engineers to develop test plans for applications.

General Requirements:
At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
Experience developing applications requiring multi-threaded, real-time, distributed implementation.
Experience with software revision control systems.
Experience with collaborative bug-tracking systems.
US Citizenship.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.

Back-end specific position requirements:
5+ years of experience developing Java applications using JDK8 or JDK17.
Experience using Java RMI and gRPC.
C/C++ experience.
Linux experience such as RHEL8.

Front-end UI-specific position requirements:
5+ years of experience developing Swing, JavaFX, and Flutter applications, including developing Java applications using JDK8 or JDK17 along with FXML and CSS.
Experience using Java RMI and gRPC.
Experience visualizing large data sets.

Signal processing specific position requirements:
5+ years of experience developing real-time digital signal processing applications, including developing signal modulation/demodulation and filtering applications.
Experience with sonar-related signal processing, target tracking, and classification algorithms.
Experience with image processing.
Experience with Intel IPP, Intel MKL, Intel oneAPI, Matlab, CUDA, and real-time audio processing.
Experience with C++, Java, and Python.

*Incumbent will be required to submit for a Department of Defense Secret-level security clearance within the first 3-6 months of employment, and once granted must maintain eligibility to hold a Secret-level clearance. *

The person hired into this position must be a U.S. citizen and successfully obtain and continue to maintain a Department of Defense (DOD) Personnel Security Clearance. The process for obtaining a DOD Security Clearance can be viewed using the following links: Processing Applicants (dcsa.mil) or General Investigations and Clearance Processes (dcsa.mil)

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

While not required, you’ll stand out if you have:
Current possession of an active Department of Defense security clearance.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
Experience with underwater acoustics.
Experience in End-to-End AI/ML production systems from inception to deployment.
Experience in one or more areas such as machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, and artificial intelligence.

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