Software Development Engineer (Associate or Mid-Level)
About The Position
The Northwest Flight Test Transport Data Systems Team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, implement, and maintain web-enabled data ingestion, processing, visualization, and archival systems used in flight test programs. This position will report to Seattle, Washington. This hands-on role will contribute to front-end and back-end development, data pipelines, CI/CD automation, system testing, and integrations with instrumentation and acquisition hardware. The engineer will work with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, compliant capabilities to test & evaluation customers. The successful candidate should have excellent debugging and documentation skills across software and systems architecture, the ability to research, evaluate, and test new software solutions, and proficiency coding in languages such as JavaScript, Python, C, and C++. BT&E is currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate or Mid-level Software Development Engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
- The position must meet Export Control compliance requirements, therefore a “US Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. “US Person” includes US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee
- Experience in API design and development
- Experience in web application development teams
- 2+ years of experience with software development on Windows or Linux
- 2+ years of experience in hardware or software requirements, design/development, analysis, integration or testing/verification activities2+ experience with developing, documenting and maintaining complex architectures, requirements, algorithms, software-to-hardware interfaces and designs for software systems
- Experience in identifying and communicating business requirements with cross-functional and/or cross-business teams
Nice To Haves
- 5 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with managing and deploying Kubernetes systems
- Experience with CEPH storage infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain backend services (APIs, data pipelines), front-end web UIs, and real-time communication (WebSocket or equivalent)
- Build and validate data ingestion, processing, and archival workflows that preserve data integrity under operational load
- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests; integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Debug, profile, and resolve software and system issues across the stack in both lab and flight-test environments.
- Contribute to CI/CD, deployment automation, and release pipelines
- Produce and maintain technical documentation: architecture descriptions, interface control documents, runbooks, and test artifacts
- Ensure designs and operations consider security, certificate management, export compliance, and disaster recovery needs
- Participate in design/code reviews and mentor junior engineers as needed
Benefits
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
- relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
