Specialist, Software Engineering
About The Position
IEC, Navigation Solutions delivers advanced military GPS and broader Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capabilities that support mission requirements across weapons systems, ground platforms, airborne assets, maritime systems, and space environments. Navigation Solutions products are engineered to provide resilient PNT performance for the warfighter operating in denied or degraded environments. This role directly ensures that GPS receivers maintain mission effectiveness when exposed to adversarial threats and operational challenges. A key responsibility of this role is to develop and debug robust embedded software to fulfill strict performance requirements related to GPS user equipment. This role expands beyond coding, testing and debugging, and includes analysis of requirements, producing detailed documentation, conducting proof-of-concept evaluation of design alternatives, conducting code reviews, and other similar tasks. Successful candidates perform complex professional software engineering assignments requiring advanced problem-solving skills. This requisition, and any potential offer, is contingent upon the award of government contracts and adherence to contract budgets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent, and a minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience in the design and analysis of realtime embedded software.
- Master of Science or advanced degree preferred and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience.
- In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience
- 2+ years of experience working as a team lead, technical lead, and/or subject matter expert for an embedded software development project
- 2+ years of experience as a technical contributor working with DoD / DoW customers or subcontractors
- 5+ years of experience with C/C++ coding and debugging
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of modern GPS concepts including signal selection, acquisition and tracking, Position, Velocity, and Time (PVT) calculation, data demodulation, signal correction, jamming, and spoofing
- Experience in architecting, developing, and integrating real-time embedded software for GPS user equipment, including on target hardware
- Experience analyzing or designing algorithms for inertial measurement, signal processing, linear algebra, feedback control, estimation / filtering / detection, or similar
- Prior experience with real-time embedded operating systems for Modular Open Source (MOSA) software development
- Familiarity with Defense industry typical documentation and milestone reviews
- Experience in software development using Agile / Scrum methodologies
- Experience with common SW tasking and review tools including Jenkins / Bambo, Jira, and Git
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Responsibilities
- Actively contribute to embedded C/C++ development for GPS and related equipment, including integration and debugging on target hardware
- Develop high quality documentation covering design details and demonstrating compliance to requirements
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance
Benefits
- health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- EAP
- education assistance
- parental leave
- paid time off
- company-paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
