Senior Software Engineer Software

Senior Software Engineer Lead end-to-end development of autonomous platform software from prototype to production

Location:

Remote

Compensation: $134, USD / year

Job Tags:
Software

The Senior Software Engineer 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.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 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 (front end 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, Gitlab, static analysis, etc
• Test-driven development methodologies
• A demonstrated ability to adopt new languages, libraries, and technologies

Even better qualifications include:

• 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

Pay Information

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

The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate's experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.