[rayiner]

Defense sector is full of hard problems. A PhD helps, but even with a BS you can be working on very challenging things. When I worked at a defense startup we were designing protocols, writing VHDL and drivers for logic implemented in FPGA's, doing formal analysis of algorithms, doing data visualization, etc. Different people were doing different things, obviously, but even the junior folks were tackling problems that required reaching into their CS toolbox.

Its not an industry that has a great reputation, but what it does have is phenomenal engineers working on complex multidisciplinary problems.

[gnosis]

I would like to strongly discourage anyone from working in the so-called "defense sector", which should be (at least in the US) more properly called the "war sector".

Working to enable the more efficient murder of ever more people is highly unethical. Unfortunately, there are plenty of unethical people willing to do this bloody work. But hopefully you are not one of them.

[rayiner]

We're living in the Pax Americana, the most peaceful time in human history, enabled in no small part by total American military technological superiority.

Not to mention we're posting all this over a network created for the American war machine, using protocols created by a company that is a key part of the military industrial complex (BBN), which was founded by people from a university (MIT) that was then and is now one of the largest non-profit defense contractors in the country.