Junior Software Engineer at Vadum Inc
Raleigh, NC
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Jul 20, 2026
Raleigh, NC
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level software engineering role at a national defense research and development firm, focused on prototype development, software testing, and quality assurance under senior engineer supervision. The work involves writing and testing code across languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, and MATLAB, with some exposure to machine learning frameworks. Suited to recent graduates or those with up to five years of experience who can obtain a government security clearance.
Junior level · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,602 (middle half $131,111–$172,430).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The clearance requirement states 'Government security clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain clearance.' This is treated as a hard gate but the minimum level is unspecified; 'Secret' is used as the most common baseline for defense R&D roles at a company like Vadum — the actual level may be higher.
Vadum is headquartered in Raleigh, NC (919 area code confirmed); the Durham-Chapel Hill CBSA (20500) is the closest standard CBSA encompassing the Raleigh metro area. The Raleigh-Cary CBSA (39580) is also a plausible match — the posting does not specify a city.
The experience range '0–5 years' is stated in the Required Qualifications section; the overall years minimum is set to 0 (entry-level). The upper bound of 5 years is noted here for context but does not change the junior classification.
Java, C/C++, Python, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, and MATLAB are all listed together in the Required Qualifications section under 'Experience with programming languages (…)' and are treated as hard gates. In practice, candidates may not be expected to know all of them equally — the posting groups them as a single requirement.
Functional Programming is explicitly called 'a plus' in the Required Qualifications section and is marked as preferred accordingly.
The role has a meaningful QA/testing component (verifying metrics, entering test results, quality control), which is why 15-1253 is noted as a runner-up SOC.
Requires a Secret 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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