Are you ready to join a team guided by a singular vision? One that’s dedicated to being diverse, inclusive and united in their team’s values and strong support of each other? Then look no further.

Our client innovates across all domains: from land and sea to air, space, and cyberspace. Constant innovation is made possible by a strong culture and an unwavering vision that’s shared by employees across the globe – a vision of one global team creating trusted, innovative solutions to make the world a safer place.

This opportunity is located at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, just outside of Los Angeles, where some of the most cutting-edge research meets the world’s most innovative technology. The role could also potentially be located in El Segundo, CA; Aurora, CO; or CityLine, TX. If you're interested and would like to learn more about this employment opportunity, you may send your resume directly to the Recruiter at: brandon@galaxytekhires.com

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Seeking a Software Development Engineer with an active U.S. Government Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) accesses. Successful candidate will have the opportunity to support exciting projects with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This position requires travel to customer sites on a periodic basis.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop data processing software for a special studies ground team to implement in a U.S. Government enterprise architecture
• Responsible for all stages of the software product life cycle – planning, analyzing, coding, designing, integrating, testing, deploying and providing support for production
• Define software use-cases, requirements and interfaces
• Interact with data scientists to convert prototype algorithms into automated, robust data processing software

REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with a minimum of 6 years of software engineering or related experience
• Active U.S. DoD Top Secret with approval for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access
• U.S. citizenship
• Experience developing with one or more of the following technologies (Python, C/C++)
• Software development experience in team environment using software configuration management software
• Ability to establish and follow an enterprise framework for all phases of software development: requirements, design, development, testing, and delivery

OTHER DESIRED SKILLS:

• Advanced degrees and certifications
• Familiar with JPL, NASA, or DoD practices and standards
• Knowledgeable of software languages (MATLAB, XML, JSON, Java, CUDA, Markup)
• Understands data file formats and image processing software and tools
• Experienced with software support tools for version control, issue tracking, collaboration, automation, containerization, document generation (JIRA, GIT, Artifactory, Confluence, Jenkins, Docker, Sphinx)
• Knowledgeable of Cloud Solutions (Amazon Web Services (AWS))
• Familiar with software code analyzers/audit tools (Coverity, Semmle)
• Experienced with utilizing mathematical models and algorithms related to image chain processing
• Ability and willingness to learn new software skills as needed to perform project tasks
• Ability to work in a complex multi-task, schedule-driven environment
• Ability and initiative to perform effectively with minimal day-to-day oversight