Senior Software Engineer

Que Technology Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to support the Advanced Analytics Team’s mission. In this Fort Meade, MD onsite role, you will turn requirements into working software, including performance-focused development that extends down to operating system level work and binary analysis.

The work blends application engineering with low-level technical challenges such as file I/O, system interfaces, and executable understanding. You will also build and improve capabilities for detecting and analyzing malicious artifacts, supporting reverse engineering and function identification in compiled software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications that support mission requirements.
• Assess customer needs, produce software prototypes, engineer technical solutions, implement algorithms, and translate conceptual designs into scalable software architectures.
• Develop and debug software using object-oriented programming languages.
• Perform software engineering and technical design activities aligned to mission outcomes.
• Analyze and understand legacy code to support ongoing and new development.
• Create efficient algorithms using data structures, dynamic programming, heuristics, and modeling techniques.
• Conduct software testing and troubleshooting to validate functionality and performance.
• Work at the operating system level, including file I/O, system interfaces, and low-level programming concepts.
• Develop advanced tools for binary analysis and security-oriented research, including shellcode detection, malware analysis, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 11 years of relevant experience, or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Python, with the ability to read and understand C/C++ and Assembly (x86).
• Experience with software architecture, operating system design, compilers, and debugging.
• Comfort working with operating system internals, low-level development, file I/O, system APIs, memory management, and executable program analysis.

Technologies

• Python
• C/C++
• Assembly (x86)

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans, company paid.
• Short-term Disability, Long-term disability, and Life Insurance, company paid.
• Business/First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights, and a company card for expenses.
• Vacation/Personal days: 25 days per year.
• Paid Federal Holidays: 11 days.
• $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class.
• 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by employee.
• $10,000 bonus per employee hired based on referral.
• Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with malware analysis, reverse engineering, and protocol analysis.

Security Clearance

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.