Senior Software Engineer/Architect - TS SCI cleared
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
Laurel, MD · $105k a year · Posted November 8, 2026
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About the job
...who can work as part of a team to design, implement, test, document, and maintain software applications that provide highly impactful capabilities. You will combine software engineering best practices with the latest software research to build rapid prototypes and then...