2 months ago
Arlington, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$134k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement, integrate, test, and demonstrate advanced algorithms and software systems for autonomous platforms.
- Develop software tools and applications for mission planning, automated control, unmanned platforms, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring within small engineering teams across the complete software development lifecycle.
- Translate complex mathematical and algorithmic concepts into software applications in collaboration with research scientists.
- Support software and systems architecture at the system and system-of-systems levels.
- Apply code review, unit testing, test coverage, static analysis, and test-driven development practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 5+ years of experience.
- 3+ years of experience with C++ or Java.
- Full-stack development experience with a heavy focus on backend algorithmic development.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and backend executable optimization.
- Experience developing, implementing, integrating, and testing autonomy algorithms and software.
- Experience leading small engineering teams of approximately 2–4 engineers through the software lifecycle.
- Experience with object-oriented programming, Agile development tools, and test-driven development.
- Ability to obtain a security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. government for the clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include an MS or PhD, active security clearance, reinforcement learning, agentic AI, embedded and physical-device programming, multi-agent coordination of UxVs, MAVLink or other C2 protocols, ROS, TAK, constraint satisfaction algorithms, knowledge representation, ontologies, and Python.
Benefits
- Full-time position with a flexible hybrid work environment and remote work permitted when work does not require STR facilities.
- Work locations include Woburn, MA, Arlington, VA, and Dayton, OH.
About STR
STR develops cyber, electronic warfare, sensing, and AI/ML systems and analytics for U.S. defense and intelligence customers, delivering R&D services, prototypes, and fielded capabilities. The privately held, employee-owned company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, with sites near Boston, Arlington (VA), Dayton (OH), Melbourne (FL), and Carlsbad (CA). Work spans RF, sonar, radar, command-and-control, and ISR, including subsea sensors and signal processing.