Metrea
CybersecurityDirect Greenhouse career site

Embedded Software Engineer

Location
Victor, NY · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Experience
2+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
22 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • security clearance eligibility
  • C/C++
  • Python
  • Linux
  • CI/CD

Also useful

  • Java
  • GitLab

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k match
  • Pto

Group Overview

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry's leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our busy team specializing in state-of-the-art military communications and signals intelligence products. All our teams operate in a small and agile environment which allows our engineering personnel to work independently on a wide variety of systems and products. This role will require development, testing, and debugging of software components for embedded systems and at times desktop or services-based applications.

What You'll Do

  • Design and implement software from the requirements phase to the delivered product
  • Analyze, design, and implement software subsystems given a set of high-level requirements
  • Design, develop, test, and debug software components for embedded systems
  • Analyze and improve system performance as needed
  • Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers to ensure best practices and code quality

What You Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • 2+ years of experience in software development
  • Experience in developing solutions using Java, Python and C/C++ for embedded systems
  • Ability to quickly learn challenging concepts, decompose difficult software problems and provide resolution
  • Experience working with Linux environment
  • Experience with CI/CD and GitLab or other git based code repository

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

  • Eligible to receive a security clearance

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical plan options
  • HSA/FSA accounts
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • 6% employer 401(k) match
  • Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Generous PTO
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
  • AD&D Coverage
  • Pet Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • This position requires eligibility to obtain a Top Secret / TS/SCI clearance. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements

Base Pay Range

The compensation range shown below is a good faith estimate and reflects the expected base pay for this position upon hire. This is just one component of Metrea's overall approach to total rewards and final compensation decisions, including the ultimate salary or hourly rate agreed upon, may vary depending on factors such as job location, job-specific knowledge, skills, experience, and the overall negotiated compensation package. Eligible full-time employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package designed to support their health, wellbeing, and long-term success.

Pay Range $80,000—$120,000 USD

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service - spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack - from the lab to the field - we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Read the original posting

From Metrea's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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