Software Engineer

The Software Engineer develops, integrates, deploys, and sustains software supporting unmanned-system flight, command and control, autonomous navigation, communications, sensor integration, mission planning, and end-user administration.

Job duties:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software for mobile, fixed, embedded, and unmanned-system applications.
• Develop software supporting flight control, command and control, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and mission-system integration.
• Create and integrate software that enables embedded hardware and printed circuit board solutions to operate aboard unmanned platforms.
• Develop production software using C, C++, Python, and object-oriented software-development practices.
• Build software from source and manage compilation, dependency, configuration, and deployment processes.
• Develop autonomous-navigation and path-planning capabilities, including waypoint navigation, geofencing, dynamic routing, obstacle avoidance, and collision detection.
• Integrate and configure BetaFlight, ArduPilot, PX4, and related autopilot or flight-control technologies.
• Integrate data from inertial measurement units, GPS receivers, cameras, LiDAR, and other sensors through sensor-fusion techniques.
• Develop or modify ground-control software supporting mission planning, execution, monitoring, and system administration.
• Work with QGroundControl and comparable ground-control applications.
• Develop operator interfaces using Qt, QML, or comparable graphical-interface frameworks.
• Implement and troubleshoot MAVLink communications between unmanned vehicles, payloads, and ground stations.
• Develop Python scripts for automation, data processing, analysis, system testing, and rapid prototyping.
• Configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP networking and system data-transport paths.
• Diagnose data-communications failures across software, firmware, network, and hardware boundaries.
• Analyze and reverse-engineer complex C++, Python, and embedded-system codebases to identify subtle defects.
• Develop test procedures, simulation tools, automated tests, and diagnostic utilities.
• Participate in agile development activities, including requirements refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, code reviews, and release preparation.
• Support laboratory, ground, flight, and operational testing of integrated unmanned-system capabilities.
• Work directly with technicians, mechanical engineers, operators, and Government stakeholders to resolve integration issues.
• Prepare software documentation, configuration records, test reports, release notes, and technical recommendations.
• Support end users in administering operating systems and applications installed on locally manufactured printed circuit boards and embedded devices.

Minimum profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering/science discipline.
• At least three years of hands-on experience with a degree or seven years without a degree.
• Recent software-development, integration, testing, or mission-support experience with Group 1 or Group 2 unmanned systems; relevant Group 3 experience may be considered.
• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.