Software Engineer

This team conducts research supporting sponsors across the Department of Defense and focuses on autonomous uncrewed aircraft programs. Expertise includes autonomous systems, systems engineering, avionics engineering, embedded software development, test and evaluation, and hardware- and software-in-the-loop development and test environments and laboratories.

• Must have a Bachelors degree and 2 years of experience min or Masters degree
• Experience developing software for complex systems using disciplined approaches and processes.
• Experience developing software in C/C++ languages.
• Experience with common scripting languages, including bash and Python.
• Experience developing software using Linux GCC compilers and related build and debugging tools.
• Experience developing software on Linux and deploying to Linux target systems.
• Familiar with multi-threaded and multi-process concepts and applications.
• Familiar with or aware of common software IPC mechanisms, such as shared memory, pub-sub messaging, or RPC, * Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience developing software for complex military systems using disciplined approaches and processes.
• Experience developing embedded software.
• Experience with containerized software development.
• Experience with multi-threaded and multi-process software development.
• Experience developing software for autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/UAV).
• Experience developing software for autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USV), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), unmanned under systems (UUV).
• Experience developing software for payloads on unmanned autonomous systems.
• Experience developing and integrating software interfaces to sensors systems (EW, EO, ATR, ML, etc.).
• Experience with development of secure and/or safety critical systems.
• Experience with avionics data buses (MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, Ethernet, RS-422, etc.), tactical data links, military radios.
• Experience with military relevant open software standards and frameworks (MOSA software, FACE, OMS, VICTORY, etc.).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Git.
• Experience with VMs, containers; SITL, HITL.
• Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD.

Salary: $108,540 - $140,300, equivalent hourly while on contract. Depending on level of edu and exp