1 day ago
Base Salary
$58k - $105k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers and customers to identify software requirements and evaluate design approaches.
- Translate mission needs into technical requirements, demonstrate software capabilities, and incorporate customer feedback.
- Design and develop maintainable software applications, services, data pipelines, and user interfaces.
- Develop Python software for data processing, analytics, hardware integration, automation, and testing.
- Build and integrate web-based and desktop interfaces for system configuration, data visualization, and operational monitoring.
- Implement, test, integrate, and verify software against functionality, reliability, performance, and usability requirements.
- Create engineering documentation, interface control documents, software requirements specifications, test procedures, and user documentation.
- Coordinate development work, design changes, feature priorities, bug fixes, and customer feedback.
- Support laboratory, field, and at-sea prototype testing, including troubleshooting software, hardware interfaces, and data flows.
- Present technical concepts, development progress, test results, and product demonstrations to customers and stakeholders.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field.
- Relevant professional, internship, academic, or project experience developing and integrating software applications.
- Proficiency in Python for applications, automation tools, data processing, or hardware-control software.
- Experience designing, developing, and integrating REST APIs.
- Proficiency with software version-control processes and tools such as Git and GitHub.
- Working knowledge of Linux command-line tools and shell scripting.
- Experience testing and debugging software integrating multiple data sources, services, or hardware components.
- Ability to work across multiple software-development lifecycle phases within a small multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to interact directly with customers, gather requirements, communicate tradeoffs, demonstrate software, and respond to feedback.
- Ability to understand complex technical documents and communicate technical ideas in writing, orally, and visually.
- Preferred qualifications include C++, embedded or electro-mechanical system integration, modular test architectures, telemetry and external web-service integration, dashboards and data visualizations, test and build automation, static analysis, continuous integration, communications protocols, embedded test equipment, and field or at-sea integration testing.
- Experience with government, defense, or technical customers and the ability to work independently with changing priorities are preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite work in San Diego, California, on a 9/80B schedule with every other Friday off.
- The position supports laboratory, field, pier-side, and at-sea testing activities.
- The role requires an active Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one.
About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.