Software Engineer Integration and Test

Position Title: Software Engineer Integration and Test 

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Software Engineer Integration and Test opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable production systems using modern technologies and best practices.
• Create and maintain tools that streamline gimbal production processes.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, readability, and adherence to established standards.
• Implement automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to support fast, safe, and repeatable releases.
• Understand gimbal hardware architecture and essential embedded gimbal code at a functional level. 
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize live production systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Establish and enforce quality control practices, including static analysis, test coverage, and release validation.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, system design, and etc.
• Provide technical support for external customers and internal users.
• Troubleshoot and identify UI and hardware issues.
• Support customer integration activities by troubleshooting software, UI, networking, video, metadata, control-interface, and hardware-related issues in lab, factory, and field environments.
• Collaborate with customers, internal engineering teams, production teams, and program stakeholders to identify integration risks, reproduce issues, document findings, and drive issues to resolution.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computing (Computer Science, Computer Engineering etc.) and five years of delivering production-grade systems. Master’s with five years experience, preferred.
• Proficiency with C/C++.
• Experience with DevOps, quality engineering, or reliability engineering required.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and quality assurance tooling.
• Proven ability to debug, profile, and optimize production applications.
• Experience with unmanned aircraft systems preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience Communicating with customers at the user, technical, and programmatically
• Excellent team skills and team-oriented mentality.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Flexible; able to multi-task in response to time-sensitive and changing situations.
• Effective listening skills.
• Objective, solution-oriented problem-solving skills.
• Handles sensitive and confidential information.
• Resourceful, able to network and connect people to appropriate resources.
• Technology savvy, comfortable using MS software products.
• Strong planning and organizational skills and follow through.
• Resilient, stays positive and solution-oriented.
• Perceptive, discovers underlying issues in situations and re-states them in a helpful way.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic, able to work without direct supervision.
• Physically able to lift up to 20 pounds (materials/equipment)
• Effective use of computer, laptop, cell phone and other mobile device to exchange information.

Job Details:

• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary Range: TBD
• Location: Hood River, OR (Onsite).
• Due to government contract requirements, this position is restricted to U.S. Citizens only.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.