Software Engineer; Junior to Experienced - ASL - Huntsville, AL

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Huntsville, AL

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) Air and Missile Defense Systems (AMDS) Division of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking a Software Engineer to become a member of a small, highly collaborative Agile team supporting critical Army Air and Missile Defense programs. Located in Huntsville, Alabama, ASL conducts world‑class applied research in avionics modeling, simulation, analysis, testing, evaluation, and high‑performance software development in support of government sponsors.

The Software Engineer designs, develops, and tests software applications and products. Additionally, the Software Engineer manages software development teams, provides technical leadership, and establishes software development lifecycle practices and processes. The Software Engineer is proficient in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Scala, and Groovy. In this role, the Software Engineer requires extensive knowledge of programming languages, software development, computer operating systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Dev Ops, Application Programming Interface (API) development, container development, and distributed systems.

The Software Engineer also applies engineering principles to software creation, manages production releases of software, performs code reviews, merges feature development branches, and analyzes and triages issues. The necessary skill areas for the Software Engineer include programming and coding, fundamentals of computer science, software design and architecture development, algorithms and data structures, information analysis, software debugging and testing, and working on development teams.

The Software Engineer also works with sponsors to curate requirements, define sprint work items, set priorities for work backlogs, and organize development teams.

• Perform software development, debugging, modification, enhancement, and documentation.
• Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet program requirements.
• Develop and maintain kernel and user‑level software and scripts.
• Contribute to research reports, presentations, white papers, and competitive proposals.
• Create and analyze network protocols.

• Design and develop software requirements for air and missile defense systems supporting current and next‑generation platforms.
• Implement high‑performance software solutions that meet stringent real‑time and reliability requirements for operational defense systems.
• Develop and optimize containerized applications using Docker and Podman for deployment across diverse operational environments.
• Collaborate regularly with customers, users, and cross‑functional…