Software Engineer

PeopleTec is seeking a motivated individual who is interested in joining an award-winning company and working with cutting edge technologies to include hypersonics, directed energy, missile defense, and space systems. The selected candidate will be a member of our dynamic Huntsville team and will work on projects involving mission and flight planning, flight test, and software product design, development, testing, and analysis.

Our team supports state-of-the-art projects, blending engineering skills and software design to perform research and analysis, modeling and simulation, software development, testing, and verification. Team members work with a wide-ranging group of customers to understand project requirements and develop innovative and creative solutions to address the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our employee owners support our customers by:

• Understanding and developing solutions to support emerging needs in a dynamic environment
• Planning, implementing, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for the integration and testing of products
• Maintaining and evolving software architectures and external interfaces to expand capabilities of models and simulations
• Supporting flight test analysis, planning, and execution

The successful candidate will be an adaptable, agile, experienced software engineer who is a consummate team player capable of spearheading the design and integration of software systems in support of DoD weapon systems. The candidate will work with the Product Manager, other developers, and engineers to define system requirements, create a compliant architecture, and integrate/develop software components. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, possess effective communication skills, and have skills and experience with a micro-service-based open systems architecture.

Duties Include :

• Develop in a micro-services-based software architecture capable of operating in a deployed environment across tactical networks
• Specify functional requirements, design computer simulations, client-server architectures, advanced networks/protocols, and databases
• Review and develop technical specifications and standards, ensuring successful integration of subsystems into a microservice-oriented architecture framework
• Integrate and modify software components and ensure interfaces and languages are compatible with the overall architecture
• Plan and create new software modules to implement future capability enhancements as well as respond to changing customer requirements
• Design and develop advanced networks and protocols, database management systems, and program in high order languages
• Prepare and present briefings to internal and external teammates as well as customers
• Apply science and/or engineering techniques to develop economical solutions to technical problems

• Proficiency in common high-order programming languages such as C/C++, C#, and Python and the Windows and/or Linux operating systems
• Experience developing software in a microservices-based architecture
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in the application of requirements analysis, design and development, unit testing, verification, integration, and reporting
• Experience in quality assurance during the software development and deployment stages
• Sound oral and written communication skills and the ability to clearly present and communicate technical approaches and findings to the team and the government customer
• Experience working in an integrated development environment and using tools like Git and Visual Studio
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, team environment
• Travel: Up to 20%
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Secret clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Secret clearance upon hire, and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering or scientific field of study from an accredited college or university and 10 years of progressively complex experience in computer simulation, software, advanced networking techniques and protocols, data bases, high-order programming languages, and operating systems
• A relevant master’s degree in engineering or science from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two years of relevant work experience. A relevant PhD degree in engineering or science from an accredited college or university may be substituted for three years of relevant work experience.

Desired Skills :

• Experience with Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) development practices
• Experience developing software for DoD weapon systems, missile defense, hypersonics, or flight test and analysis applications
• CRUD-based repository management
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles for modeling complex mission and flight analysis domains
• Building service interfaces and inter-service communication with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
• Reactive programming using ReactiveX for event-driven and asynchronous data flows
• AI development, including integrating machine learning models or AI-enabled capabilities into production software, and using AI-assisted tools in the development workflow
• Cloud development and deployment, including building, containerizing, and deploying services in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, or government cloud platforms)

PeopleTec, Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville, AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

Culture: The name “PeopleTec” was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our company’s foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere, we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

Career: At PeopleTec, we value your long-term goals. Whether it’s through our continuing-education opportunities, our robust training programs, or our “People First” benefits package, PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.