Senior Software Engineer

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Job Type: Full Time

About EO Solutions: EO Solutions is a rapidly growing aerospace and defense company focused on advancing capabilities in Space Domain Awareness and Directed Energy Systems. Our teams work across Hawaii, Nevada, Alabama, and remote locations to solve critical national security challenges with innovative, mission‑focused technologies.

EO Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to support the architecture, development, integration, and testing of advanced communication, controls, and safety software for complex High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon systems. This position requires a versatile software engineer capable of working across the full software stack, from embedded controls and real‑time hardware interfaces to operator interfaces and mission‑level graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

The ideal candidate will possess strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with safety‑critical systems, and the ability to rapidly develop and assess high‑quality software solutions in a fast‑paced defense environment. The successful candidate will also be comfortable leveraging modern AI‑assisted software development tools while maintaining the technical judgment necessary to evaluate code quality, performance, security, safety, and maintainability.

• Lead the development of advanced communication, controls, and safety software for High Energy Laser weapon systems
• Design, develop, integrate, and test software across embedded, middleware, backend, and GUI application layers
• Design, develop, test, and validate software and interfaces specifications
• Develop embedded controls software for real‑time hardware interaction and system control
• Design and implement operator interfaces, mission displays, and visualization tools
• Develop software architectures supporting modularity, scalability, maintainability, and mission reliability
• Integrate software with sensors, tracking systems, beam control systems, and weapon subsystems
• Support real‑time communications, hardware interfaces, and distributed system architectures
• Participate in system integration, hardware/software integration, and field testing activities
• Conduct software verification, validation, debugging, and performance optimization
• Perform software safety analyses and participate in software safety reviews for mission‑critical systems
• Ensure software compliance with Government Information Assurance (IA), cybersecurity, and system sanitization requirements for operation on classified and tactical Command and Control (C2) networks
• Utilize AI‑assisted development tools to improve productivity while critically evaluating generated code for correctness, efficiency, security, and maintainability
• Develop and maintain software documentation, interface definitions, test procedures, and technical data packages
• Collaborate closely with systems, electrical, optical, and controls engineering teams
• Support Agile development activities, design reviews, and technical interchange meetings
• Mentor junior software engineers and contribute to internal software engineering best practices
• Support proposal development and advanced technology initiatives related to Directed Energy Systems
• Support software deployment and accreditation activities within classified and secure operational environments
• Develop and maintain software architectures that support secure communications, data handling, and operational security requirements
• Participate in cybersecurity assessments, vulnerability mitigation efforts, and Authority to Operate (ATO) support activities
• Support software sanitization, media handling, and cross‑domain security requirements for government systems

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline
• 8+ years of software engineering experience supporting complex technical systems
• Strong experience developing software in C++ and C
• Experience developing both GUI applications and embedded real‑time software
• Experience supporting…