Software Engineer

Leidos•Huntsville, AL

13d•$107,900 - $195,050•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place by helping customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. The Defense Sector employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. Leidos delivers innovative solutions through its diverse and talented people who are dedicated to customer success. The company empowers its teams, contributes to communities, and operates sustainably. Everything Leidos does is built on a commitment to do the right thing for its customers, people, and community. The company's Mission, Vision, and Values guide its business practices. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber, and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, and IT solutions. Leidos is known for its people-oriented culture, positive work environment, technical excellence, and resilient business ethics. Within the Defense Sector, the Airborne Systems Business Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Flight Software Engineer in its Huntsville office. This role involves developing software for tactical strike, sensors, autonomy, CUAS, and UAS solutions. The position focuses on developing robust, innovative software frameworks, as well as fielding, supporting, and maintaining software products. These products range from analysis tools/simulations, mission planning software, and components of mission-critical systems. This position may involve development using embedded computing technologies such as drivers, flash memory, bootloaders, board support packages, PCBs, JTAG, real-time operating systems (RTOS), single board computers, system-on-chip (SoC), and hardware interfaces and protocols.

Requirements

Candidate must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.
The candidate must have 8+ years of relevant technical experience or 6+ with a MS degree.
Have a proven track record of implementing software development principles.
Candidate must demonstrate a strong competency in software development in either C/C++, Java, C#, Rust, or Python programming languages.
Candidate is expected to participate in peer reviews and accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.
Have experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.
Possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software development, configuration management, and software quality engineering concepts.
Have strong analytical and process improvement skills along with a personal drive for details and quality workmanship.
Possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software test and software quality engineering concepts.
Aptitude with Linux and Windows operating systems and their respective development tools/IDEs, scripts, debuggers, and administrative features is also expected.
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and use of one or more Agile tools, such as Gitlab Ultimate, Atlassian Jira, Trello, or Monday.com.
Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
Have good verbal and written communication skills.
Must be a resident of North Alabama or willing to relocate to the Huntsville-North Alabama area.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with applicable industry standards (IEEE 12207, CMMI, DO-178C and/or DO-278, RMF) is a plus.
Interest and/or experience in software development using AI tools is also a plus.
The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiple small teams is highly desirable.
Experience with the design and implementation of time-sensitive software for integrated systems, such as real-time software, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, vehicles, medical devices, or IoT components.

Responsibilities

Design and develop robust C/C++ embedded software under the oversight of a senior software developer.
Assist with creating and executing unit and integration tests on software components.
Perform as part of an agile software development team for tasking and progress reporting.
Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with the team.
Troubleshoot and resolve application issues and bugs in a timely manner.
Other software development duties as assigned.
Use GitLab software pipeline for performing configuration management, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Direct communication with customers, end users, and team members will be required on a frequent basis.