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# Systems Software Engineer

- **Company:** The Aerospace Corporation
- **Location:** Huntsville, AL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $100,300 - $150,400
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Private Networks, Systems Engineering, Software Bug Management, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Data as a Services, Data Visualization, Design of User Interfaces, Object-Oriented Software Development, Qt (Software), Software Tools, Software Engineering, Data Strategy, Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=36601f45ffe57480

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, science, or other related technical discipline

 * Typically, at least 4 years of increasingly responsible experience in software engineering or related engineering disciplines

 * General C++ experience, including object-oriented programming (OOP)

 * Familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/Rancher, Jenkins)

 * Experience in systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, and/or digital engineering

 * Ability to integrate into and operate effectively within a mature, large-scale codebase, demonstrating flexibility and professional adaptability in adhering to established team norms, coding standards, and development conventions

 * Experience in UI design and implementation

 * Excellent time management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects

 * Take initiative, have flexibility, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment

 * Excellent interpersonal skills and well adept at oral and written communication

 * Available and willing to travel domestically, approx. 5-10%

Active Secret security clearance
*

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

 * Advanced degree in engineering, mathematics, science, or other related technical discipline

 * Experience with Qt

 * Data visualization experience

 * Experience in systems engineering or model-based engineering experience

 * Demonstrated leadership of broad multidisciplinary teams conducting technical evaluations of complex systems; cost, schedule, and risk analysis; portfolio-level trade studies; and requirements development

 * Experience with DoW systems engineering and programmatic processes, methods, tools, and personnel

 * Experience briefing senior Government leaders (General Officer and/or SES/SIS)

## Description

This position will be required to work full-time on-site at Aerospace's Huntsville, Alabama location.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Serve as an expert for an internally developed software tool, handling information requests and delivering demos to program offices and their customers

 * Help users understand how to build models, run analyses, and create and use dashboards within the tool

 * Work with users and program offices to gather requirements for new features, improvements, and bug fixes and help to prioritize development work and plan sprints

 * Implement new features and bug fixes, and maintain deployments across web-hosted, internal network, and government network environments

 * Provide hands-on support to help analysts leverage advanced features and troubleshoot models

 * Partner with digital transformation teams to plan and implement data strategy for in-house tools and capabilities, including integration with other key data services

 * Identify and implement new capabilities and enhancements to better support customer programs and architectures

 * Take initiative to inform management of technical issues and recommend courses of action

 * Leverage Aerospace's technical backplane to deliver tailored technical support and innovative solutions for customer-specific use cases

 * Develop data visualization dashboards to enable data-driven decision-making

 * Provide ongoing technical consultation to management, customers, and contractors

 * Provide mentoring and oversight to early career staff, as necessary