Senior Software Engineer

About the Team:

STR’s Analytics & C2 Division develops novel technologies to solve challenging national security problems through advanced analytics. Our team consists of passionate and motivated individuals with degrees in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, and data science. We use our expertise and creativity to take innovative ideas from conception to mature implementation in order to improve mission success.

The Collaborative Autonomy and Control (CAC) Group in the AC2 Division works to build software systems that solve critical problems in the areas of uncrewed system autonomy, multi‑agent collaboration, resource management, and control. By leveraging expertise in machine learning, algorithms, model‑predictive control, and software development, we build tools that support tactical mission planning and execution, autonomous reasoning, and more.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of a tightly knit team to design, develop, implement, integrate, test, and demonstrate advanced algorithms and software systems for autonomous platforms. You will provide technical leadership and mentoring on programs working throughout the software and system development lifecycle, from early prototypes to integrated systems. Your work will develop a diverse set of software tools and applications for mission planning systems, automated control processes, unmanned platforms, Dev Sec Ops , and CI/CD pipelines.

This position is based in Woburn, MA, Arlington, VA, or Dayton, OH, and will take advantage of STR’s flexible, hybrid environment – when the work does not require use of STR’s facilities, you are welcome to work remotely.

• U.S. Citizen with ability to get a security clearance
• BS in Computer Science or related technical field with 5+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with C++ or Java
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization of backend executables (frontend experience is a lesser focus)
• Proven ability to develop, implement, integrate, and test autonomy algorithms and software
• Proven ability to proactively assume leadership within modest size engineering teams (2‑4 engineers) through complete Agile development lifecycle including task definition, delegation, and maintenance
• Demonstrated success executing industry best practices in areas such as code review, unit testing, test coverage, static analysis, etc., to ensure mature, high quality software products
• Experience in supporting system/software architecture design at the system and system‑of‑systems (SoS) levels
• Comfortable working both with internal leadership and external customers in the development and execution of software product plans
• Experience utilizing the following:
  • Object‑Oriented Programming principles for large scale systems
  • Agile software lifecycle methodologies and tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, Git Lab, static analysis, etc.
  • Test‑driven development methodologies
  • A demonstrated ability to adopt new languages, libraries, and technologies

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with the following:
  • Collection Orchestration
  • Satellite Constellation Management
  • Containerization and service based architectures
  • Coordinating Electronic Warfare resources
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Agentic AI
  • Experience programming for embedded and physical devices
  • Multi‑agent coordination of Ux Vs
  • MAVLink or other C2 protocols
  • ROS
  • TAK
  • Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD tool‑chains
  • Constraint satisfaction algorithms
  • Knowledge representation/ontologies
  • Python
• Active Security Clearance

Full‑Time Salary Range: $134,000 - $184,000

STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.

STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical…