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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER-JD with Security Clearance

McLaughlin Research CorporationNewport, RI🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 22, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers an exceptional opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge naval technology, fostering significant career growth and skill development within a renowned research organization. You'll thrive here if you possess a strong engineering background, C++ expertise, and a passion for solving complex challenges in a dynamic, schedule-driven environment. Embrace the chance to make a tangible impact and advance your career with this exciting position.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Newport, RI, United States
Posted
Yesterday
C++

Job Description

Job Description
McLaughlin Research Corporation (MRC) is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer who will support the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport RI. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. The successful candidate must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, schedule driven environment. Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
  • Strong C++ experience in a Linux development environment
  • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
  • Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
  • Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
  • Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn outside of core discipline
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance Responsibilities
  • Automate testing of Government managed and developed code base
  • Generate system solutions to increase reliability, ease-of-use, and capability across a variety of customer missions
  • Write and maintain core libraries (frame transformations, targeting and guidance, communications, etc.) that Government Unmanned Undersea Vehicles will use
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture
  • Service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  • Travel up to 15% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world McLaughlin Research Corporation offers a competitive benefit plan to employees and their eligible family members that includes health, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, paid holidays, accrued leave, accrued vacation, 401K, profit sharing, as well as, any other state or federally required benefits.

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