Embedded Software Engineer II at Gentry Professional Services, Inc.
Linthicum, MD
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Aug 18, 2026
Linthicum, MD
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role supports a space payload and ground systems program, building and maintaining software that drives test equipment and executes automated verification tests for space payload hardware units. The work spans the full development lifecycle — design, development, integration, and test — on an Agile scrum team. It suits an experienced software engineer comfortable with test automation, embedded systems, and working toward a TS/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 8+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is a genuine hybrid of software development and test/verification engineering. It is classified under 15-1253 (Software QA Analysts and Testers) because the primary stated mission is designing and executing automated verification tests for space payload hardware — but 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a strong runner-up given the full-lifecycle development responsibilities.
The experience requirement is stated as a tiered formula: 8+ years with a Bachelor's, 6+ years with a Master's, or 3 years with a PhD. The minimum (8 years, Bachelor's) is used for the overall years minimum and the degree requirement.
Jenkins and Robot Framework appear together in both the Basic Qualifications narrative and the Preferred Qualifications section. In the Basic Qualifications they are framed as tools the team uses ('automation tools such as Jenkins and Robot Framework'), not as a hard gate on the candidate — the gating language there is on Python, Linux/Windows, debugging, and SCM. They are listed explicitly as preferred in the Preferred Qualifications block, so they are marked as preferred.
The posting requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance (not necessarily an active one), but also lists an active TS/SCI as a preferred qualification. The clearance gate is set to TopSecretSci accordingly.
Agile/Scrum experience appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
The Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software configuration management.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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