GNC Senior Software​/Algorithm Engineer

CoAspire is a defense manufacturing leader in Northern Virginia, providing advanced weapons systems. With over twelve years of innovation, we focus on building reliable, cost‑effective weapons. Our 27,000+ sq. ft. facility offers a collaborative environment that values safety, quality, and work‑life balance. Join us to make a tangible impact on mission‑critical technology.

Position: You will perform a key analytical and modeling role in aerodynamic design, performance prediction, and trajectory optimization for our weapons systems. Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, you will develop high‑fidelity computational models to predict and optimize system behavior across flight profiles, ensuring alignment with program performance and mission requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Learn OpenGL modeling, support, and maintain tools for telemetry visualization
• Learn Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) processing to support development of terrain following, terrain avoidance, and terrain-matching navigation algorithms
• Help develop telemetry processing tools to support post-flight analysis
• Develop automated regression testing, unit tests, and integration tests to ensure code functionality and integrity.
• Assist engineering leadership in diagnosing performance issues, evaluating design trade-offs, and recommending optimizations.
• Prepare clear technical documentation, analysis summaries, charts, and presentations for internal reviews and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to process improvements, trajectory tools, optimization algorithms, or workflow enhancements.

Qualifications:

• At least 2 years C/C++ coding experience with an understanding of algorithms (sorting, lookup tables, interpolation).
• Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline.
• Proficiency in
  1) Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Android Studio, or other IDE,
  2) Git,
  3) C++ GUI development, and parsing command line parameters and
  4) Mathematics – specifically algebra, trigonometry, and calculus
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain security clearance or background-screening requirements.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, collaborative, team‑oriented environment.

Desired

Skills:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in software engineering or electrical engineering
• An ability to learn new things quickly

Beyond competitive pay, we offer:

• Full benefits from day one: medical, dental and vision
• 401(k) with generous company match and immediate vesting
• PTO and Federal holidays