# R&D Engineer: Software Engineer

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday. CURRENT PENN STATE STUDENT (not employed previously at the university) and seeking employment with Penn State, pleaselogin to Workday to complete thestudent application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday. If you are NOT a current employee or student, please click “Apply” and complete the application process for external applicants. Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work location. For additional information on remote work at Penn State, see Notice to Out of State Applicants. POSITION SPECIFICS Your working location will be fully on-site in State College, PA, but options exist for limited hybrid of on-site/work from home, based on project-dependent ability. This role requires frequent travel to sponsor locations in the Beltway area and to associate contractor and second party locations within and outside the continental United States. Trip lengths may be up to 2 weeks in duration. We are

- **Id**: 792933
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pennsylvania-state-university-rd-engineer-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: University Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T04:17:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7333
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: DoD SkillBridge, Hybrid work, Retirement plans, Veteran hiring program
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Education, Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 37673
- **Name**: Pennsylvania State University
- **Domain**: psu.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/psu-edu>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 68
- **Open postings**: 1002
- **Ghost share**: 0.533
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 92100
- **Max**: 200808
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200808

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 61

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T04:04:22Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 25
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.566
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200808
- **Is top pay**: yes

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