Junior Scene Generation Engineer

Scene Generation Engineer

The Engineering Services Division is searching for a Scene Generation Engineer towards the design, development, and validation of high-fidelity physics-based 3D radiometric synthetic environments across a full range of environments encompassing tactical, strategic and surveillance scenarios. Provide a working understanding in multiple disciplines, including radiometry of targets and background scene objects, graphical programming, advanced software and architecture development, and real-time hardware-in-the-loop system integration.

The ideal candidate has experience in software development in a distributed team environment, is proficient using Linux, has graphical programming experience especially with regards to physics-based rendering, and understands and has experience with the principles of radiometry and reflection of electromagnetic energy.

• Design, develop, and validate high-fidelity physics-based 3D radiometric synthetic models for use in scene generation software across a full range of environments encompassing tactical, strategic and surveillance scenarios.
• Provide integration support of our scene generation software into real-time hardware-in-the-loop laboratories, providing expertise to resolve software and integration issues and ensure scene generation quality.
• Develop software tools to advance and support model development, integration, analysis and visualization, and enhanced user interfaces.
• Review software developed by peers and provide technical feedback and guidance.
• Mentor junior software engineers and promote software engineering best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve software quality, development efficiency, and system performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Educational experience in object-oriented software design and development.
• Educational experience developing applications in Linux environments.
• Educational experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Experience with software testing methodologies and debugging tools.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Follows standard practices and procedures when analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained. Completes assigned tasks within schedule and budget.
• Ability to work comfortably in a team environment by sharing ideas and experiences with others, solicits feedback and asks relevant questions.
• Able to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, where small teams share a broad variety of duties.
• Ability to obtain or maintain required security clearances if assigned to classified programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible software engineering experience.
• Existing Secret or Top Secret security clearance
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: C++, OpenGL, CUDA, Python
• Graphical programming experience especially with regards to physics-based rendering
• Understands and has experience with the principles of radiometry and reflection of electromagnetic energy
• Experience working within DoD development environments.

ITAR Requirement:
This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations ("ITAR") and/or the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants will be asked to provide specific documentation to verify U.S. person status under the ITAR and the EAR. A "U.S. person" according to their definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee, or asylee.

See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.