Software Engineer

Capstone Research Corporation•Colorado Springs, CO

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Capstone Research Corporation is seeking to expand our team. Capstone Research Corporation is headquartered in Huntsville Alabama. We are a customer-oriented engineering services company providing world class research and development support across the Department of Defense (DoD): Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). We have an immediate opening for a Software Engineer to work in our Colorado Springs, CO office. The successful candidate will join the interdisciplinary MDA/OSW Group supporting existing Joint Tactical Integrated Fire Control projects/programs. The successful candidate will serve as a technical contributor within our team. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality production-grade software as part of our growing team. The successful candidate will be a top-tier individual contributor who designs, writes, reviews, and debugs complex systems daily. This role is hands-on and requires significant software development.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field
3-5 years of professional software development experience
Proficiency in real-time modern C++ (C++17 or newer)
Experience with memory management and ownership models
Experience with concurrency primitives and multi-threaded system design
Experience with deterministic resource management
Experience with networking fundamentals
Experience with serialization frameworks
Experience with asynchronous systems
Demonstrated experience writing high-quality unit tests and enforcing test discipline
Excellent problem-solving skills and effective verbal and written communication skills
Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time
3 references, including 1 personal and 2 who are familiar with the candidate's prior professional work experience
U.S. Citizenship
Ability to qualify for a DoD Secret or higher clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience with DoD operations, concepts, and technologies and their supporting sensors, effectors, and networks
Experience designing or maintaining message-driven architectures
Experience improving or designing CI/CD systems
Familiarity with cross-platform development (Windows + Linux)
Experience in regulated, safety-critical, aerospace, or defense environments
Master's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field

Responsibilities

Work on-site within a collaborative team environment to engineer joint tactical integrated fire control solutions
Write clean, efficient, and scalable code aligned with established standards and best practices
Translate high-level system goals into a concrete, implementable architecture
Use scripting languages such as Bash or Python to automate data processing workflows
Prototype algorithms and perform analysis using Python and/or Matlab
Design, implement, and maintain complex modern C++ systems
Debug and resolve advanced issues involving concurrency, synchronization, and memory ownership
Write and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests using Google Test / Google Mock
Contribute directly to CI/CD pipelines and build infrastructure improvements
Participate in periodic program reviews and technical presentations to Government stakeholders