Senior Principal Software Systems Engineer

DescriptionSAIC is hiring a Senior Principal Software Systems Engineer to join the Army UAS Training Test team located in Huntsville, Alabama (Redstone Arsenal).This is a multi-disciplined team that covers a wide range of testing scopes, including testing physical and virtual network systems, software applications, and UAS control interfaces. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys variety and switching gears supporting complex systems since this position will be working with multiple operating system types (Windows, Linux, etc.),

networking architectures, and across multiple UAS platforms.

Qualifications Required

Education and Experience:

Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience;
Masters and three (3) years or more experience.  Four (4) years relevant experience may be substituted for a bachelors degree.

Required Clearance:

Must have an active Interim Secret Security Clearance; must be able to obtain a Secret Security Clearance

Required Skills:

14+ years of experience in software systems deployment and troubleshooting, software development, or software integration Must have experience providing field and sustainment level maintenance

Ability to interact and work closely with the software development team to assist Senior Engineers in the design, development, testing and integration of software systems

Experience working in a software development environmentMS Office products

Desired

Skills:

Familiarity with providing on site engineering, sustainment, and training support

Experience coordinating product release cycles

Experience operating objective UAS systems (Gray Eagle and/or Shadow) and their trainers (Embedded Trainer—ET / Universal Mission Simulator—UMS)
MS Azure experience This position requires US citizenship.

Job Field:
Software Travel:
Yes, 75 % of the Time