There's a pretty decent need for software engineers at national labs and they occasionally do some cool stuff. If you've used ZFS on Linux for example, you've u

There's a pretty decent need for software engineers at national labs and they occasionally do some cool stuff. If you've used ZFS on Linux for example, you've used something produced by LLNL. They do some pretty massive software projects and have a huge number of software testers. The ones I've interacted with were pretty exceptional.