Sr. Principal Software Engineer - Full-stack application developement

Description

Relocation assistance may be available for this role.

Top-Secret clearance is required before start.

Travel is expected at about 10% of the time.

The role is based at the company's Xetron unit in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is part of the Mission Systems sector and builds capabilities for military and intelligence customers worldwide.

The team works on cutting-edge technologies and high-impact products, with the chance to get to know everyone on site.

The company is looking for cleared Sr. Principal Software Engineers who are self-motivated and energetic, with a background in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

The company describes its work as a pioneering effort that moves forward national security and intelligence capabilities, and its engineers are part of a long history of technical firsts.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers building cloud-based, full-stack applications that use advanced algorithms, decision support processing, and data fusion.
• Create, evolve, and maintain the software architecture to meet operational needs across the front end, back end, data, and cloud infrastructure.
• Handle decision support system processing and orchestration.
• Develop and integrate algorithms such as optimization, analytics, and automated reasoning.
• Produce knowledge from disparate data sources and sensors through scalable data services and APIs.
• Build user-facing components and services that give operators and analytic users access to these capabilities.
• Carry out full-stack engineering across design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and operations of cloud-based mission applications.
• Design and implement cloud-hosted microservices, APIs, and data pipelines for decision support and analytic workflows.
• Evaluate commercial options, including cloud services and COTS/GOTS components, in make-or-buy analyses.
• Develop custom algorithms and analytic services for decision making and situational awareness.
• Integrate custom analytic tools and decision support capabilities into the overall system and enterprise architecture.
• Build data products and knowledge services for automated and manual consumers, such as dashboards, UIs, external systems, and APIs.
• Own the architecture and design of advanced decision support systems and analytic services.
• Work with modern tools such as cloud services, containers, and CI/CD in a real operational environment.

Requirements

• Hold a B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 8 years of programming experience, or an M.S. in one of those fields with 6 years of programming experience, or a Ph.D. with 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Have demonstrated experience developing software in Python, C, or C++.
• Have demonstrated experience integrating commercial software products into a custom software solution.
• Have proven experience across the full software lifecycle, including operating and maintaining fielded systems.
• Have experience leading engineers and directing their tasks to reach milestones.
• Hold an active Top-Secret clearance.
• Be a US citizen.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills and a solid understanding of modern cloud architectures are required.
• Desired knowledge includes computer networking and optimization, modern development environments, cloud integration, and virtualized or containerized computing such as Docker or VMware.
• Experience with SysML or UML is a plus.
• Optional: an active SCI security clearance.
• Optional: an advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Optional: experience developing software for US government classified environments.
• Optional: hands-on experience building full-stack solutions hosted in AWS or Azure, such as microservices, serverless, containerized workloads, and managed data services.
• Optional: experience with web development using TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Go.
• Optional: experience integrating COTS/GOTS tools into a deliverable software product.
• Optional: experience with Agile methodology.
• Optional: experience developing software with UML or SysML in Cameo.
• Optional: familiarity with source control platforms such as Git, GitHub, or GitLab, and CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

Conditions

A 9/80 work schedule is available, with a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and every other Friday off.

Base salary range is $142,200.00 to $213,200.00, set by the scope of the role and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and market conditions.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Equal opportunity applies to all candidates.

Benefits

• Eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary annual bonus, depending on the position.
• Long Term Incentives may be available for Vice President and Director roles.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.