Principal Software Engineer

Position Title:Principal Software Engineer

Requisition ID:1801

Position Location:Fairfax VA

Position Reports To:Program Manager

Supervises Others:No

Trident has built a reputation as a trusted provider of aerospace and defense electronics & processing systems including digital RF & Optical command and control solutions and atmospheric & airborne sensors. Our three operating units: Space Electronic Systems (SES) Integrated C4ISR Systems (ICS) and Optical Precision Systems (OPS) develop within the agile framework which enables us to produce proven purpose-built systems that solve our customers mission critical challenges across space air land and sea.

Tridents Integrated C4ISR Systems (ICS) specializes in products and services which improve the safety and survivability of our armed forces. We develop solutions for a wide range of demanding missions and environments including tactical communications systems for multi-national interoperability autonomous predictive maintenance and logistics solutions and scalable responsive all-domain surveillance systems. Tridents integrated systems support the protection of the National Capital Region and various military installations both domestic and abroad. We can deliver innovative high-performance solutions that meet our customers evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

Position Summary

This position will be part of a team responsible for software design and development for Predictive Maintenance & Logistics (PM&L) projects and other internal software development efforts within the ICS Business Unit. ThePrincipalSoftware Engineer will design implement and test software that supports data manipulation and storage translation sensor data capture and transmission export of data to multiple platforms conversion to standardized messaging formats and graphical user interface design. The role requires development predominantly in python on Linux systems including interaction between processors external devices external software interfaces and networked systems. The employee will work as part of a fast-paced engineering team support technical demonstrations and test events and document development efforts through design documentation interface control documents user manuals and test plans.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design implement and test custom software for condition-based maintenance and other internal projects.
• Develop software for data manipulation storage translation sensor data capture sensor data transmission and export to different platforms.
• Convert and integrate data into standardized messaging formats and external software interfaces.
• Build and maintain software interfaces to databases APIs file-based data sources message brokers and external applications.
• Implement algorithms in software for data manipulation analysis and presentation.
• Develop software that operates in conjunction with external and embedded hardware/software across Linux Windows and Android environments.
• Document development efforts through design documentation interface control documents user manuals and test plans.
• Support software packaging deployment configuration management and troubleshooting in lab field and customer environments.
• Support technical test events demonstrations and customer-facing engineering activities as part of a fast-paced team.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Science or equivalent and a minimum of 9 years of related experience working in an agile environment OR 7 years with a graduate degree (or 13 total years in lieu of a degree).
• Experience with Python software development.
• Experience developing maintainable production-quality software including modular design error handling logging configuration management and unit/integration testing.
• Experience with Python libraries and frameworks for data processing automation APIs and/or application development.
• Experience working in Linux and Windows development environments.
• Experience with data formats and interfaces such as JSON CSV XML REST APIs sockets message queues or similar mechanisms.
• Experience with databases and data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL SQLite InfluxDB object storage or similar systems.
• Experience with software revision control systems such as Git SVN or similar tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot software issues across applications operating systems networks and external system interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with condition-based maintenance predictive maintenance vehicle health management telemetry sensor data or diagnostic systems.
• Experience with data analytics signal processing machine learning or algorithm implementation in Python.
• Experience with Python web or API frameworks such as Flask FastAPI Django Dash or similar tools.
• Experience with embedded Linux edge-compute devices or software interaction with embedded/external hardware.
• Experience with containerization deployment and DevOps tools such as Docker CI/CD pipelines or automated build systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to document technical work clearly.
• Strong team orientation and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $120000 - $222000
Please Note: Actual compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience skills education certifications internal equity business considerations and geographic location where applicable.

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Basic life with AD&D
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D accident critical illness hospital and pet)
  • Spending accounts (HSA FSA and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including automatic company contribution)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental pregnancy and military)
• Potential annual bonus

Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Trident Systems is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process please contact.

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