4 days ago
Base Salary
$131k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain software architectures, technical roadmaps, design standards, and architectural principles for sensor and radar software systems.
- Analyze customer and operational requirements and develop software architectures and technical solutions.
- Create and document system architectures, software designs, interfaces, data flows, deployment architectures, data models, and technology selections.
- Lead technical design reviews and guide complex design, integration, and implementation decisions.
- Decompose system-level requirements into software features, components, interfaces, and tasks with development teams.
- Evaluate frameworks, tools, third-party products, and technology options based on program needs, risk, cost, schedule, and maintainability.
- Identify architectural risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation strategies and communicate them to program leadership.
- Ensure cybersecurity, resiliency, safety, performance, and testability are addressed in architectural decisions.
- Support integration, deployment, monitoring, sustainment, and continuous improvement across program teams.
- Review code and technical artifacts for alignment with architecture and engineering standards.
- Mentor software engineers and technical leads and communicate technical approaches, tradeoffs, risks, and status to stakeholders.
- Integrate and field-test RF sensors and systems and support CONUS deployment of advanced sensor systems.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with 12–15 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 10–13 years of relevant experience, is required.
- Significant experience designing, developing, integrating, and sustaining complex software systems is required.
- Demonstrated experience creating and communicating software or system architectures is required.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and NVIDIA CUDA, including implementation of high-performance signal processing algorithms, is required.
- Experience with software design principles, object-oriented design, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, APIs, DevSecOps, and software integration is required.
- Experience with source control, automated build systems, code reviews, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, and issue-tracking tools is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance is required.
- Preferred qualifications include an MS degree, radar or communications program experience, radar-system development and operation experience including HWILs, and technical documentation experience.
- Preferred qualifications include leading technical teams of 8–15 engineers and executing significant software efforts within projects.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with AI tools for documentation or code generation, cybersecurity engineering, secure software development, threat modeling, real-time or embedded systems, and regulated or high-assurance domains.
- Strong communication, organizational, collaboration, technical leadership, and cross-disciplinary stakeholder skills are required.
- The candidate must reside in North Alabama or be willing to relocate to the Huntsville–North Alabama area.
Benefits
- This is not a remote or work-from-home position; the role is based in the Huntsville–North Alabama, Alabama area and may require CONUS deployment.
- Leidos offers opportunities for continued technical growth and advancement into senior technical, project management, or personnel management roles.
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.