Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

Position Summary

We are looking for a hands-on cyber practitioner who can build capabilities, operate them alongside customers, and turn operational experience into better tools. This role develops and supports deployable cyber tools, wireless reconnaissanc systems, and the software and infrastructure that connect them. The work spans device and network characterization, authorized access generation, distributed sensors, and operator command-and-control interfaces. The right person understands both how these systems work and how they are used: what an operator needs to discover, what the available data actually tells them, and what technical action is appropriate next. This is not a traditional data engineering or research-only position. It combines cyber operations, software development, systems integration, and expeditionary mission support. The engineer should be equally comfortable developing a capability in the lab, troubleshooting it in the field, and returning with evidence of what needs to change. Data engineering and AI are tools for improving operational outcomes—not the purpose of the role.

What You'll Do

Develop operational cyber capabilities. Build, integrate, and improve modular tools supporting wireless survey, reconnaissance, device and network enumeration, technical characterization, and operator-directed access workflows. Turn useful scripts and prototypes into capabilities that others can reliably employ.
Prepare, deploy, and operate systems. Configure and support Linux-based sensors, edge compute, communications links, and remote operator interfaces. Validate that capabilities work in disconnected, bandwidth-constrained, and resource-limited environments—not only on a development network.
Work alongside operators. Support mission preparation, customer engagements, exercises, trials, and authorized operational activity. Understand the customer’s problem, help employ the system appropriately, troubleshoot technical issues, and clearly communicate capability limitations.