Experienced Software Development Engineer

Description

The team in Hazelwood, MO builds software for platform health management within the company's global services software engineering group.

You will design, build and maintain cloud-native microservices that collect and assess platform health and usage data, run automated assessments and generate maintenance recommendations. The aim is to support fleet readiness and lower lifecycle costs across fighter, trainer and unmanned aircraft and proprietary systems.

You will take part in every stage of development on an Agile team working in a CI/CD pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and maintain non-embedded software across its full life, meeting industry, customer, safety and regulatory standards.
• Turn customer needs into early designs and implementation plans.
• Write and keep up to date software architectures, algorithms, interfaces and detailed designs.
• Build, integrate and tune software products, including components from suppliers.
• Investigate complex faults, lead root-cause analysis and put corrective actions in place to improve reliability and performance.
• Answer user questions, fix technical problems and fold user feedback into improvements.
• Assess current and emerging tools, frameworks and technologies, then recommend and adopt the useful ones.
• Set up, track and improve software processes, tooling and performance metrics against company goals and industry benchmarks.
• Plan, carry out and document software research and development work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance; the U.S. Government requires U.S. citizenship.
• 5+ years of object-oriented design and programming in a high-level language such as C,.NET, Java, SQL, HTML or CSS.
• 5+ years developing software on Windows or Linux.
• 5+ years building software for containerized architectures such as Docker, Podman or Kubernetes.
• 5+ years using Git.
• 5+ years developing software products in a cloud environment.
• Complete a technical assessment (CodeVue coding challenge) as part of selection; not completing it removes you from consideration.
• Preferred: Level 3 education, meaning a Bachelor of Science from an accredited program in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science or computer science plus 5+ years of related work experience; or a Bachelor's degree plus 9+ years of directly related work experience; or 13+ years of related, relevant experience.
• Preferred: 2+ years of experience in cyber security.
• Preferred: working knowledge of specification formats, strict change control, and how standards drive aircraft or product certification and compliance strategies.
• Preferred: proven ability to lead requirements derivation and allocation across system, subsystem and software levels, with full traceability through the lifecycle.
• Preferred: strong software architecture and design skills; able to define and validate architectures that meet complex requirements and constraints.
• Preferred: advanced ability to architect, build, integrate, optimize and debug software across varied host environments; leads resolution of complex, cross-cutting issues.
• Preferred: proficiency across several programming paradigms and languages (higher-order, auto-coded and assembly), plus strong database design and performance skills.
• Preferred: deep experience designing and overseeing implementation, validation and verification strategies; expert use of development and test toolchains and process improvement.
• Preferred: broad knowledge of systems that shape software architecture and integration (aircraft, missiles, airborne, shipboard, space and ground); anticipates and mitigates constraints such as OS limits, fidelity and processing capacity.

Conditions

100% onsite; you must work at one of the listed location options, with the team based in Hazelwood, MO.

Pay depends on experience, qualifications, and market and business considerations. Summary pay range for Experienced (Level 3): $126,650 - $171,350.

English language required.

Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent.

Relocation is offered based on candidate eligibility.

Not an export control position.

Not a safety sensitive position.

Security clearance: you must be able to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance; an interim and/or final U.S. Secret clearance is required after start.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

This position is not contingent upon program award.

Shift 1 (United States of America).

Drug testing applies for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP and alcohol when criteria are met under company policy.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay plus variable compensation opportunities.
• Potential signing bonus for eligible external candidates.
• Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work. Availability depends on location, hire date and collective bargaining agreements.