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The Software Engineer will advance the capabilities of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) by providing software design, development, and maintenance. In this role, you will bridge the gap between software development, quality assurance, and technical writing. You will provide programming support to our engineering teams while also performing software testing procedures and comprehensive documentation tasks.

NRL is in Monterey, CA and the work would be performed in NRL’s facilities.

Salary Range: $110-125K

• Employee ownership


• generous 401K and profit sharing


• health/dental/life/vision insurance benefits


• interesting assignments


• educational reimbursement


• competitive salaries


• pleasant work environment

• Programming Support - Assist software engineering teams with writing, debugging, optimizing, and maintaining code modules.


• Collaboration Work - closely with senior developers to troubleshoot complex issues and integrate new features into the existing codebase.


• Software Transition – Deploy changes to software to the operational environment at FNMOC and provide reports back to the team.


• Software Testing - Design, develop, and execute comprehensive manual and automated test plans, including unit, integration, and system testing.


• Defect Tracking - Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs using standard issue tracking systems (e.g., Jira, GitLab).


• Documentation - Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation, API guides, release notes, and user manuals.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or any other relevant technical field


• Secret Security Clearance


• 2+ Years of Software Development Experience

• Experience with: Programming languages such as Python, Fortran, Bash/KShell Data structures Algorithm Development Documentation and Technical Writing


• Strong oral and written communication skills


• Strong additional consideration for experience with: Weather Modeling Operational Center experience

Radiance Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Our Growth is creating great opportunities. Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it.

Employee-Ownership Radiance is a proud employee-owned company! Employee-ownership benefits both our customers and workforce, and ensures that Radiance doesn’t have to answer to stockholders or be driven by quarterly earnings reports. Thus, Radiance will always prioritize enhancing our customer’s mission over expanding our bottom line. We are singularly focused on providing our customers with game-changing solutions to their most challenging requirements.

This is only possible because employee-ownership attracts the highest quality employees, empowers them to identify capability enhancements, and provides them with the freedom to take risks to deliver high-quality solutions. Employee-ownership also provides tangible and long-term financial security for our people and their families. Therefore, employee-ownership embodies participation, empowerment, freedom, teaming, excellence, accountability, mission focus, and security.

Radiance’s culture is driven by our commitment to our customers and our employee-owners. Our employee-owners thrive on entrepreneurship, empowerment, and mutual responsibility for growth and sustainability. Our culture consists of individuals who embody technical and leadership skills to deliver superior solutions to the nation’s toughest technical challenges. We believe building trust and credibility with our customers leads to long-term results. We invest in a superior technical workforce where leaders are developed, innovation is encouraged, and achievements are recognized. We seek innovative ways to improve, experiment, take risks, foster collaboration, and empower our employee-owners.

Our values drive our culture, business model, and daily interactions. These values constantly remind us of who we are and what we do. Our employee-owners influence how we operate our business. We relentlessly pursue operating excellence by innovating, improving our processes, and reducing waste. We believe in being wise and ethical stewards of capital and resources. Our values dictate how we interact with each other and our customers, partners, and suppliers. Honesty, trust, humanity, alignment, and value creation require that we treat our employees with dignity and respect and provide them with fair compensation and equal employment opportunity. We believe in connecting with our communities and have a responsibility to be good corporate citizens, and we believe in sustainable business practices, which include supporting the environment and the communities in which we work.