Senior Missions Systems Software Engineers – Embedded

Description

The company builds safety critical and mission critical flight software and is hiring embedded software engineers for its Mission Systems Software team in Berkeley, Missouri.

You will join an agile integrated product team that includes software, analysis, integration and test, sensors, and system test engineers. The team works through a CI/CD build pipeline with a strong focus on code quality, security and automation.

Focus areas include sensor fusion, mission management, resource management, fire control and weapons engagement, mission processing, stores management software, tactical communications, third-party software integration, and pilot vehicle interface software.

Candidates are matched to teams based on program need, background, experience and career goals. Senior engineers also write technical product plans, mentor junior engineers, and act as a point of contact with senior leadership and government counterparts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, debug and maintain software for embedded devices and systems that meets industry, customer, safety and regulatory standards.
• Turn customer requirements into software designs for embedded products.
• Write code that runs on specialized embedded hardware and integrate it with hardware components.
• Measure and improve the efficiency and stability of embedded software systems.
• Take part in every phase of development, including requirements decomposition, architecture, algorithms, implementation, Hardware in the Loop testing, documentation and verification.
• Keep up with current and emerging tools, frameworks, technologies and regulatory changes that affect software and hardware work.
• Advise on how software and hardware should integrate.
• Track internal and supplier software teams to confirm their work follows project plans and industry standards.
• Manage embedded software projects.

Requirements

• Required: a bachelor's degree.
• Required: 9+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent mix of technical education and experience.
• Required: 5+ years of full lifecycle software work, covering development, modeling, simulation, testing and/or analysis, in C, C++, Python, Java, Ada and/or Linux.
• Required: 5+ years of designing, documenting and maintaining architectures, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems.
• Preferred: a bachelor of science in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science or computer science, plus 9+ years of related work experience; or a bachelor's degree plus 13+ years of directly related experience; or 17+ years of related, relevant experience.
• Preferred: a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or an engineering-related field.
• Preferred: experience debugging technical problems involving memory or timing.
• Preferred: familiarity with tools such as embedded system software, C, C++, Rust, Linux, VxWorks, containers, Git, CI/CD DevSecOps and/or Cameo.
• Preferred: experience developing embedded real-time software.
• Preferred: experience developing Operational Flight Program (OFP) software for an aircraft platform.
• Preferred: experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS).
• Preferred: experience with object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD).
• Preferred: experience with Agile software development.
• Preferred: experience with open architecture standards such as Open Mission Systems (OMS) and Open Communication Standard (OCS), using the Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI).

Conditions

The role is based in Berkeley, Missouri, on Shift 1 in the United States.

Travel of up to 10% of the time may be required.

This is not a safety sensitive position, and it is not contingent upon program award.

The pay range for Senior (Level 4) is $160,650 to $217,350, based on experience, qualifications, and market and business considerations.

You must be able to obtain a U.S. Secret clearance, with an interim and/or final clearance required after start. The U.S. Government requires U.S. citizenship for this clearance, and program access requires U.S. citizenship only.

You must meet U.S. export control rules and be a U.S. Person under 22 C.F.R. §120.62, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees.

Visa sponsorship is not offered.

You must pass the company's Conflict of Interest assessment and complete a technical coding assessment during selection, or you will be removed from consideration.

The company is a drug free workplace, and applicants and employees may be tested for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP and alcohol when criteria are met under company policy.

No language requirements apply.

Benefits

• Total rewards include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligible employees can enroll in benefit programs that generally include health insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Program options can vary by location, hire date and collective bargaining agreements.
• Relocation is offered based on eligibility, and basic relocation is offered to eligible internal candidates.