This Software Engineering role is within the Uncrewed Land and Air Systems division. Our team is engaged in multiple cutting-edge development programs for defense applications. A strong candidate for this role will possess a history of software development for robotic/autonomous applications. Required experience includes software/hardware interface development, software integration, and a history of working in a fast-paced team environment.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Providing engineering support on both current and next generation technologies in support of our family of uncrewed ground and air products
- Participating in software development of new products across all phases of the product lifecycle from concept development to lab and offsite integration and evaluation
- Estimation, requirements, design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and release
- Taking technical leadership/ownership of software components and systems
- Integrating internal and third-party software solutions into our products
- Interfacing directly with the customer
- Collaborating with the software engineering team and other engineering disciplines to create functional systems
- Mentoring others within the team
- Performing trade studies
- Supporting onsite & offsite integration and test
- Driving process improvement
- (Potential) Leading software development efforts
- Estimating, scope management, task generation/assignment, status reporting, etc.
- (Potential) Attending industry conferences/events to gauge competition and find new opportunities
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (in computer science or computer engineering or related field) required with 5+ years of experience or master’s degree (in computer science or computer engineering or related field) with 2+ years of experience in addition to the following skills/experience:
Required:
- Understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechanical, algorithms and software systems
- Proficiency in C/C++ programming
- Proficiency with Unix based operating systems
- Proficiency with shell scripting
- Knowledgeable of Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA)/Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
- Experience using configuration management tools such as Git or Mercurial
- Effective writing and presentation skills
- Experience interacting directly with customers
- Ability to work in teams and independently with minimal direction
- Traveling up to 15% of the time
- Eligibility to obtain a Secret Clearance
Preferred:
- Professional experience in autonomous driving/flight or robotics industry with experience in software/system integration and on-field testing
- Professional experience with integrating or designing autonomous solutions for land and/or air platforms
- Experience with MicroPilot’s autopilot software
- Experience with MOOS DB/IvP
- Experience with Qt projects/libraries
- Experience with OpenDDS
- Experience with containerization platforms such as Docker
- Experience with Network/Serial/CAN interface development
- Experience frontend technologies including (but not limited to) CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST API, databases (SQL or NoSQL), and web UI design
- Experience with automation build servers such as Jenkins
- Experience with workflow management tools such as Jira
- Experience with static code analysis tools such as Coverity
- Experience developing MCP Servers and MCP Tools for use with LMMs
- Experience with AI software development and workflow tools
- Experience with MIL-STD-882E software development
- Experience with UML or MBSE tools like MagicDraw