Wireless Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Wireless Software Engineer to join our team! In this role you will get to help design and build systems, work on hardware and software integration, collaborate with an extensive team of multidisciplined engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Programming using varied languages: C, C++, Rust, Python, JavaScript

• Working with cellular systems, generational technologies (e.g., 2G/3G/4G/5G) and standards (e.g., GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000, LTE, WiMAX, 5G NR)

• Perform Layer 1 wireless communications analysis to evaluate vulnerabilities.

• Helping test - Authoring Test Plans, Executing unit tests, Documenting results, Penetration testing.

• Leading a team

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Ten (10) years’ experience in software/firmware design and development

• Experience with programming and scripting languages

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or related discipline from an accredited college or university. An appropriate Master's degree may be substituted for 2 of the required years of experience.

• This position requires the successful candidate to have and maintain an active federal security clearance, TS/SCI clearance with a poly is required.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Knowledge of cellular systems

• Use of cellular networks for data connectivity (e.g., wireless sensor networks, Cellular IoT)

• Knowledge of secure system design and implementation (e.g., cellular transport encryption, FDE)

• Knowledge of cellular identity (e.g., SIM/e-SIM) architectures

• Embedded Linux distributions (e.g., OpenWRT), boot environments and utilities (e.g., U-Boot, Barebox, BusyBox), process and system manipulation (e.g., ps, nice, init, systemd), and networking/dataflow tools (e.g., nmap, netcat/socat/ncat, tcpdump).

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., SVN, Git).

• Experience with ticketing / task tracking systems (e.g., Jira).

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: 

$117,000.00 - $210,600.00

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!