Senior UX Software Engineer

Charles River Analytics•Cambridge, MA

10h•$160,000 - $210,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This is an excellent opportunity to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team to design and develop robust, aesthetic software solutions with a particular focus on user experience (UX) and human-computer interaction. We are looking for candidates who want to continue to use their technical skills while providing technical leadership across projects. You will work collaboratively with a cross-functional team of UX research leads, software engineers, subject matter experts, and customers, using modern web, desktop, and mobile frameworks to architect and develop cutting-edge visualizations and interactions. You will use your experience to shape the engineering direction in terms of feasibility, ideal technology, optimization, and other system-level details.

Requirements

Ability to work in a Hybrid (60%) onsite capacity in Cambridge, Massachusetts
U.S. Citizenship
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
7+ years of professional software development experience, ideally with exposure to the full software development lifecycle.
Experience in DoD preferred
Willingness to occasionally travel to support customer briefings and integration/test events
Experience with (preferably leading) test and evaluation events
Familiarity with DevSecOps practices across the entire software development lifecycle
Understanding of working with multi-performer teams on large-scale integration efforts

Responsibilities

Provide engineering leadership (mentoring, code reviews, task definition and direction, technology selection, architecture definition, process improvement, etc.) across projects that range in scope and complexity
Work with Principal Investigators to understand, define, and prioritize technical requirements and track them effectively in GitLab
Understand and execute on the entire software development lifecycle (requirements management, development, merge requests, testing, deployment) and mentor junior engineers in their understanding and execution
Architect scalable, robust software systems in response to customer and program requirements
Build direct, collaborative relationships with our customers and external partners
Develop responsive user-facing applications, whether that be with JavaScript, Unity, or other relevant frameworks.
Lead technical elements of proposals for new research and development programs