Startup jobs in Washington DC
The DC corridor is where the defense tech portfolio meets its customer. Companies hiring across Washington, Arlington, and Reston, in engineering, policy-adjacent, and operations seats alike.
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CYBERCOM Growth Lead
Robotic Software Engineer (Drone Stack)
Senior Software Engineer, Anduril Cyber
Account Executive - North America - Enterprise (Government)
Technical Program Manager - Defense Autonomy
Government Partnerships Communications Lead
Associate Director, Army Mission Operations
Tactical Network Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)
Staff Engineer, HMS DevOps/DevEx (R5447)
Strategic Account Executive, Federal
Global Security Training and Education Manager
Forward Deployed Engineer
Senior Marketing Manager, Employer Brand (R5385)
Technical Security Application Engineer, Secured Spaces
Head of Government Cyber Integration, OpenAI for Government
Integrated Marketing Manager, Government
Legal Counsel, Investigations
AV Systems Administrator
Construction Project Manager, Asset Improvements
Director, Engineering Excellence & Enablement (R5467)
Sr. Program Manager - People Experience (R5452)
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5398)
Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5401)
Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5423)
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Weapons (R5398)
Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Weapons (R5400)
Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Weapons (R5427)
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5193)
Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208)
Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208)
Director, Business Development - Mission Autonomy (International)
Revenue Operations Manager
Federal Account Director, Intelligence Community
Mission Software Engineer
State Engagement Director
Technical Program Manager - Defense
Systems Administrator
Head of Government Relations
Mission Integration Engineer, Intelligence Systems
Support Delivery Lead, Government
Export Compliance Analyst
Senior Software Product Manager
Senior Software Engineer, Discovery
Manager, Test and Evaluation Engineering - Intel Systems
Legal Counsel - US Government or International Contracts
Legal Counsel - US Government or International Contracts
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Security Vetting Analyst
Account Executive Lead - North America - Government
National Security Cyber Evaluation Lead
Contracts Manager
Senior Program Manager, Physical Security Operations
Software Engineer, Agentic Modeling & Simulation
Senior Director, Business Development, Air Defense
Project Controls Lead (Design & Construction)
Perception & Fusion Engineer
Senior Software Engineer, World Modeling & Simulation
C++ Software Engineer – Autonomous Systems
Senior C++ Software Engineer (Defense Autonomy)
Head of Government Affairs
Lead Scientist, Discovery
Lead GTM Finance Analyst
Facility Security Officer
Director, Business Development (Army)
Staff Video Editor (R5256)
Legal Recruiter (Contract)
Federal-Business Development Representative
Senior Mission Operations Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)
Enterprise Account Executive - Public Sector
Technical Recruiter, Production (Contract)
System Administrator (Active Clearance), Intelligence Systems
Senior Compliance Manager
Product Operations Technical Specialist, Air Defense
Legal Counsel
Program Manager, Mission Autonomy
Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Tracking and Fusion
Software Engineer, Robotics Tracking and Fusion
Software Engineer, 3rd-Party Integrations
Site Reliability Engineer, Intelligence Systems
Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes
Staff Engineer, HMS Factory (R5276)
Senior Insider Threat Analyst
Cost Accounting Compliance Analyst (R5254)
Compliance Analyst - Policy, Process, and Procedure (R5253)
Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Staff Red Team Engineer, Discovery
Deployment Lead, East
Senior Analyst, Government Rates
Talent Acquisition Operations Manager, Analytics
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (R5270)
Senior Accountant, M&A Accounting
Hazard Zone Deployment Lead
Business Development Associate
Senior Systems Analyst, Cost & Receipt Accounting
Chief Engineer, Autonomy (R5150)
Associate General Counsel, Policy
Director, Business Development, Maritime (International Programs)
Field Enablement Partner
Space Special Projects, Chief Engineer
Director, M&A Accounting
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