Lead Software Engineer

STR • Woburn, MA

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About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer in STR’s Intelligence Division, you will lead the technical execution of mission-relevant software systems that operationalize advanced analytics, machine learning, and data-processing capabilities. You will apply software and systems engineering expertise to develop scalable, secure, maintainable applications for complex customer environments, working with software engineers, systems engineers, researchers, and mission partners to turn customer needs into executable technical plans.

You will own technical delivery for an assigned project or major subsystem, guiding its architecture, implementation, integration, testing, demonstration, and transition. The Intelligence Division develops advanced analytics and machine-learning solutions for national-security problems, including capabilities involving networking, communications, social media, text, time series, geospatial, and imagery data. Its tools help U.S. Government analysts extract, enrich, and act on intelligence information worldwide.

Requirements

• PhD with at least 2 years, MS with at least 6 years, or BS with at least 8 years of relevant experience in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government for clearance eligibility.
• Experience leading software development efforts or major workstreams involving applications, services, distributed systems, data platforms, or related domains.
• Experience translating customer needs into software requirements, designs, development plans, test plans, and integrated capabilities.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, C++, Java, Go, or similar, with experience developing and maintaining production-quality software.
• Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, issue tracking, documentation, and secure software-development practices.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, communicate risks and tradeoffs, and work effectively with customers and multidisciplinary teams.

Nice To Haves

• Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience designing system or software architectures for distributed, data-intensive, real-time, cloud, on-premises, or edge systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, container orchestration, cloud platforms, monitoring, logging, and security tooling.
• Experience developing software in large, multi-team codebases using collaborative engineering practices.
• Familiarity with message queues, stream processing, distributed computing, or microservices.
• Experience supporting technical proposals, customer demonstrations, technical briefings, or capture activities with DoW or Intelligence Community customers.
• Experience using LLM-enabled development tools, such as Cursor or Codex, in a secure and effective engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Lead software development from requirements definition through implementation, integration, testing, demonstration, deployment, and sustainment.
• Translate customer objectives into requirements, architectures, development plans, milestones, performance measures, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead and mentor software engineers, collaborating with systems engineers, researchers, DevSecOps personnel, and mission partners.
• Break complex work into actionable tasks and manage dependencies, technical risks, interfaces, and progress toward program objectives.
• Design and oversee architectures spanning services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, machine-learning integrations, user interfaces, and deployment infrastructure.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, integration activities, testing, customer demonstrations, and release-readiness efforts.
• Ensure delivered systems are reliable, secure, maintainable, and performant.
• Contribute technical content to proposals, customer engagements, and transition planning, and help ensure delivered capabilities are reusable and mission relevant.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior