Join APL’s Electronic and Photonic Systems Department as a Software Engineer! We have multiple openings available for exceptional talent who possess specialization in either back-end Java development, front-end UI development, and/or signal processing algorithm development. This position will work on all phases of software application development ranging from requirements gathering through final release and life cycle maintenance for major software components, and small projects. In this position, you will lead small project teams of 2-3 software engineers, provide feedback and correcting, and test their work as needed.
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Careers at APL-UW span across research and engineering, field and technical roles, software, principal investigators, business operations and administration, postdocs, internships, and more.
Every member of the APL-UW community, from brand-new team members to long-timers celebrating decades of work at the lab, is critical to the development of cutting-edge, impactful research. And our everyday work is all the more interesting because of it! Apply now for a role where your skills make a difference.
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Be Boundless at the University of Washington as a UW employee! You can build a fulfilling and impactful career while enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest with an all-encompassing compensation and benefits package and limitless professional growth opportunities.
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Take advantage of those opportunities and more at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. As an APL-UW employee, you not only get to enjoy the opportunities and benefits of UW, but also be a member of a team of world-renowned researchers, scientists, and engineers dedicated to bettering our campuses, state, country, and world by solving complex challenges and pioneering new technologies.
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Bring your cybersecurity monitoring skills to bear in our unclassified secure computing enclave! The Cybersecurity Analyst’s primary responsibility is the design and maintenance of APL’s main Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) computing enclave. Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-171 and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will inform your work supporting our experimentation programs, whether they are deployed in a traditional laboratory environment, or out in harsh natural environments around the world.