Essential Qualifications

• BS Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline. Commensurate experience will be considered.

• 8+ years of practical experience in software engineering.

• Experience with front-end web application development.

• Experience with wireframing and mockup software

• Solid written and oral communications skills, including ability to effectively document, convey, and present engineering concepts and products to team members and customers.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Government Department of Defense Security Clearance.

• Must be a US citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing in underwater vehicle or robotic software frameworks and expanding framework capabilities.

• Experience working on Department of Defense software efforts.

• Experience with Linux OS.

• Experience with TypeScript, React, and Redux.

• Experience with UI/UX or Human Factors Engineering (HFE) concepts and best practices.

• Ability to implement and debug communication protocols including: UDP and multicast, TCP, WebSockets, HTTP/REST APIs, etc.

• Experience with pub/sub communication middleware such as OMG-DDS (RTI/ROS2/etc), MQTT, or gRPC/ProtoBuf.

• Experience with microservices based architectures utilizing containerization and orchestration.

• Experience with Model-Based System Engineering.

• Experience with CI/CD, specifically utilizing Jira, GitHub and Artifactory.

• Experience with Git version control software.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Apply working knowledge of the software lifecycle to develop and lead software efforts.
• Make and implement decisions for designing and maintaining software architecture.
• Lead a small HMI software team while remaining the primary hands‑on developer
• Actively interface with the electrical and mechanical leads, customer, and program manager
• Ensure project CDRL’s are delivered and accepted by the customer. This includes requirements management, software documentation, unit testing, software safety testing, and software qualification testing.
• Lead trade studies for frontend frameworks and libraries such as testing frameworks and component libraries.
• Support software testing on the factory floor, offsite, and offshore.
• Perform analysis of user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
• Guide system development and implementation planning through preparation of concept of operations, interfaces control documents, hazard analysis, and test plans and procedures.
• Display excellent technical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to look at the “big picture” in system design.
• Demonstrate ability to devise innovative solutions to problems when conventional solutions are insufficient.
• Demonstrate ability to advocate for design rationale and technical recommendations.
• Review progress and evaluate results of work accomplished by self and others.
• Prepare reports and presents results to management and client.
• Schedules can be demanding throughout the year and occasional work outside normal working hours should be anticipated.