Embedded Flight Software Developer

Within the Defense Sector theAirborneSystemsBusiness Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Flight Software Developer towork in our Huntsville office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your knowledge and experience to research develop and demonstratesoftware for tactical strike sensors autonomy UAS and counter-UAS solutions.

This position focuses onthedevelopment of robust innovative modular software for real-time embedded airborne systemsas well as thefieldingoperations support and maintenance of existing embedded software products. The position includes work on different software products across the system: embedded flight software analysis tools/simulations mission planning software and components of mission-critical position will involve embedded a variety of computing technologies hardware interfaces and development/debugging tools such as device drivers flash memory bootloaders board support packages printed circuit boards (PCBs) microcontrollers JTAG interfaces real-time operating systems (RTOS) single board computers systems-on-chip (SoCs) and varying levels of communications protocols.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust modern object-oriented C embeddedsoftware for airborne computing subsystems.
• Develop software in accordance with software coding and safety standards in collaboration with peer team members and under the oversight of senior software developers.

• Assistwith creating executing and automating unit and integration tests on software components.

• Work as part of an Agile software development team and participate in planning task estimation execution and progress reporting.

• Participate in code reviews tomaintaincode quality and share knowledge with the team.

• Rapidly troubleshoot and resolve application issues and bugs.
• Contribute to team guides and technical data that supports development test and sustainment of the fieldable software.
• Use GitLab CI/CD pipelines for performing configuration management continuous integration and automated testing.

• Other software development technical duties as assigned.

• Communicate directly and regularly with customers end users and other team members.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidate mustpossessat least a bachelors 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.

• Candidate must be a U.S. citizen and be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance.
• Candidate should have0-18years of relevant technical experience. Relevant academic internship research or professional technical experience may be considered.
• Relevant technical experience must include developing integrating testing or troubleshooting embedded software or embedded-adjacent applications that interface with operate monitor support simulate control or communicate with embedded systems.

• Candidate should have knowledge of developing software in accordance with disciplined software engineering practices such as requirements analysis configuration management version control coding standards peer review unit testing continuous integration integration testing and software verification.

• Candidate mustdemonstratea strongcompetency in detailed software design and coding in one or more of the following relevant programming languages C C Java C# Rust or Python and possess the ability to learn and effectively develop in modern C.
• Candidate is expected to participate effectively in peer reviews both providing and incorporating constructive technical feedback.

• Candidate should have familiarity or experience developing or writing unit and/or integration tests using a test framework

• Have strong quantitative analytical and process improvement skills along with apersonal drive for accurate details and quality workmanship.

• Aptitude with Linux and Windows operating systems and their respective development tools/IDEs scripts debuggers and administrative features is also expected.
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• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and use of one or more Agile tools such as GitLab Ultimate Atlassian Jira Trello or .
• Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office(Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and professional character.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with applicable industry standards (e.g. IEEE 12207 CMMI DO-178C and/or DO-278 RMF MIL-STD-882) is a plus.
• Experience using AI to assist with software coding testing and/or technical document generation is a plus.
• The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiplesmall teams is highly desirable.
• Experience with the design and implementation of time-critical software for integrated systems such as real-time control software hardware-in-the-loop simulation sensors vehicles medical devices or IoT components.
• Experience with hardware/software integration board bring-up and debugging using tools such as JTAG debuggers logic analyzers logs oscilloscopes protocol analyzers RTOS applications or similar development tools is highly desirable.

* This posting is for multiple opportunities ranging in years of experience. Level of opportunity including compensation will be matched to a candidates experience.

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