Lead Software Engineer

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Leidos Defense Sector Directed Energy Division in Albuquerque NM is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive software development for a variety of electro-mechanical-optical experiments on an applied R&D contract. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team collaborating with Government researchers on hands-on experiments primarily in a laboratory. As a lead engineer on the team you will own significant parts of the software behind testbed control data acquisition and optical tracking and help guide the work of junior engineers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the design development integration and testing of C/C software for testbeds test equipment and optical tracking systems in a Linux development environment.
• Translate test objectives from Government researchers into software requirements and architecture for electro-mechanical-optical experiments and develop software control solutions.
• Develop real-time and embedded software including single board computer (SBC) applications and hardware I/O interfaces to mechanical electro-optical and sensor equipment.
• Develop and maintain data acquisition data reduction and analysis tools including operator interfaces and MATLAB/Simulink models where applicable.
• Drive continuous improvement of the teams software test and validation practices DevOps/SecDevOps pipelines and engineering workflows.
• Support the design buildup calibration and field testing of custom testbeds and test equipment; troubleshoot integrated hardware software and network issues; and turn field test results into software enhancements.
• Serve as technical lead for small projects mentoring junior engineers and peer-reviewing code and designs for quality maintainability and adherence to best practices.
• Communicate technical progress risks and solutions directly to Government customers and project stakeholders.
• The ideal candidate works independently as well as with a team learns new skills quickly communicates clearly and is organized detail-oriented and self-motivated.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with 4 years of relevant experience or a Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with 2 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on software engineering and development experience.
• Professional experience writing C/C software in a Linux system development environment.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink.
• U.S. citizenship required with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with controls engineering.
• Experience with software architecture software test and validation and DevOps/SecDevOps practices.
• Experience with embedded systems development real-time environment programming and single board computer (SBC) development.
• Experience with mechanical equipment hardware I/O testbed design data acquisition development and field testing.
• Experience with UI/UX development and network configuration and support.
• Knowledge of military radar tracking and target aimpoint correlation.
• A link (e.g. GitHub) to an example C program of your own design included with your application. Please share only personal or open-source work not proprietary export-controlled or classified code.

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