Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, development, integration, and validation of real-time RF sensor software in C/C++.
• Integrate signal-processing algorithms into open-architecture software frameworks.
• Define and execute integration tests and system-level validation tests.
• Debug real-time, multithreaded, and distributed software systems.
• Transition MATLAB and Python prototypes into optimized production C/C++ implementations.
• Document software designs, test procedures, results, technical reports, integration plans, briefings, and customer presentations.
• Support system demonstrations, field testing, and approximately 10% travel for integration and customer events.
• Establish best practices for software quality, configuration management, test automation, documentation, and technical risk management.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Interface with government sponsors, customers, program managers, and technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to proposals through technical approaches, work-breakdown planning, technical writing, cost estimation, white papers, and presentations.
• Contribute to user interfaces, dashboards, and visualization tools for observability, test execution, data analysis, and integration workflows.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship is required by the government.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Ten or more years of professional software development experience, including leadership of complex software development, integration, and test efforts.
• Expert-level programming proficiency for high-performance, real-time applications.
• Experience with Git and Linux.
• Experience developing or integrating real-time software for signal-processing, embedded, distributed, or hardware-connected systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience.
• Experience contributing substantially to proposal efforts, technical writing, technical approaches, cost estimation, and customer presentations.
• Top Secret clearance, preferably TS/SCI.
• Proficiency in Python or MATLAB and experience with hands-on hardware testing or laboratory equipment.
• Experience in signal processing, RF sensor-system architectures, real-time or embedded software, multithreaded programming, synchronization, open-architecture principles, user interfaces, dashboards, or visualization tools.

Benefits

• Full-time salary range of $220,000-$260,000.
• Approximately 10% travel for integration events, field testing, and customer demonstrations.
• Work is based at one of the company’s listed locations near Boston, Arlington, Dayton, Melbourne, Carlsbad, Atlanta, or Denver.