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November 23, 2025
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Entry Level Software Engineer

USA-PA-Pittsburgh
Full-time
Hybrid
$82K/yr - $84K/yr
New Grad, Entry Level
General Dynamics Mission Systems is a leading provider of high technology solutions for defense and scientific applications. In this role, you will be part of a cross-functional team responsible for software requirements analysis, research, design, development, and testing of software and tools.
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Responsibilities

  • Assist in software requirements analysis, participate in research, design, develop and test software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications
  • Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
  • Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, motivated to solve complex problems, and inspired to deliver superior user-centered design
  • Participate in internal reviews of software components and systems

Qualification

Required

  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field.
  • Ability to obtain a Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is required at time of hire.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.

Preferred

  • Agile experience preferred.
  • Familiarity with multiple DevOps tool chains (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Ansible/Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)
  • Familiarity with cloud services and tooling (AWS)
  • Experience supporting software teams using Agile methodologies
  • Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements
  • Concurrent programming and building multi-threaded systems
  • Memory and CPU profiling
  • Data modeling and writing efficient data access methods
  • Experience building large-scale mission-critical applications
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • Direct manipulation of user interfaces
  • Information visualization (charts, rendering maps)

Benefits

  • 401k matching
  • Flex time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Healthcare benefits
  • Health & wellness programs
  • Employee resource and social groups
General Dynamics is a defense industry contractor for shipbuilding, marine, combat and defense systems and, munitions.
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