Senior Software Engineer

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of a tightly knit team to design, develop, implement, integrate, test, and demonstrate advanced algorithms and software systems for autonomous platforms. You will provide technical leadership and mentoring on programs working throughout the software and system development lifecycle, from early prototypes to integrated systems. Your work will develop a diverse set of software tools and applications for mission planning systems, automated control processes, unmanned platforms, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines.

Who You Are

• A U.S. Citizen with ability to get a security clearance
• BS in Computer Science or related technical field with 5+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with C++ or Java
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization of backend executables
• Proven ability to develop, implement, integrate, and test autonomy algorithms and software
• Proven ability to proactively assume leadership within modest size engineering teams (2-4 engineers) through complete Agile development lifecycle including task definition, delegation, and maintenance
• Demonstrated success executing industry best practices in areas such as code review, unit testing, test coverage, static analysis, etc., to ensure mature, high quality software products
• Experience in supporting system/software architecture design at the system and system of systems (SoS) levels
• Comfortable working both with internal leadership and external customers in the development and execution of software product plans
• Experience utilizing the following:
• Object-Oriented Programming principles for large scale systems
• Agile software lifecycle methodologies and tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab, static analysis, etc
• Test-driven development methodologies

Even Better

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with the following:
• Collection Orchestration
• Satellite Constellation Management
• Containerization and service based architectures
• Cooordinating Electronic Warfare resources
• Reinforcement learning
• Agentic AI
• Experience programming for embedded and physical devices
• Multi-agent coordination of UxVs
• MAVLINK or other C2 protocols
• ROS
• TAK
• Constraint satisfaction algorithms
• Knowledge representation/ontologies
• Python

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $134,000 - $184,000