Airborne Software Engineer

Description

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Sector employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, andoperatesustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture, positive work environment, technical excellence, and resilient business ethics.

Within the Defense Sector, the Kinetic Effects Business Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Airborne Software Engineer to support work in our Huntsville, AL office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to helpdesign,develop, and integratesoftware for tactical strike, sensors, CUAS, and UAS solutions.

This position focuses on the development ofnew,robust, innovativeflight and missionsoftwaresolutions for airborne systems using open systems approaches. The position also includesfielding, support, and maintenance of software products.This position pertains to the full stack of software productsthatrange fromembedded hardware support packages, firmware integration, real-timeoperating systems, flight software, distributed C2 software,analysis tools/simulations, mission software, and components of mission-critical systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• This position involves conceptual design across the full stack of software for airborne systems, embedded software architectural design, code implementation, team peer review, unit testing, cohesive integration of loosely coupled software modules within subsystems and across distributed networks, use of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, and development of software tools, harnesses, and infrastructures to support a fully integrated solution.
• Direct communication with customers, end users, internal stakeholders, and team members will berequiredon a frequent basis.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be US Citizen.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret security clearance.
• Must be local to Huntsville, AL or willing to relocate.
• Must possessat least aBachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.
• Must have 0+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Proventrack recordof implementing softwareaccording to high qualitydevelopment principles.
• Strong competency in software development in eitherC,C++, Java,orPythonprogramming languages.
• Working knowledge of inter-process communication, multithreaded programming, and memory management.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.
• Possess an aptitude for the technical skillsrequiredfor software development, configuration management, and software quality engineeringconcepts.
• Possess an aptitude for the technical skillsrequiredfor software test and software quality engineeringconcepts.
• Strong analytical and process improvement skills along with apersonal drive for details and quality workmanship.
• Ability to accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office(Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Haveexcellent teamwork andcommunication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with applicable industry standards (IEEE 12207, CMMI, DO-178C and/or DO-278, RMF).
• The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiplesmall teams.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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