Senior Specialist, Software Engineer - Infrastructure & Embedded Systems

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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineer – Application Infrastructure & Embedded Systems

Job Number: 45417

Job Location: Yorba Linda, CA

Job Schedule: 4/10:
Employees work 10 hour shifts 4 days a week

IEC, Navigation Solutions delivers advanced military GPS and broader Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capabilities that support mission requirements across weapon systems, ground platforms, airborne assets, maritime systems, and space environments. Navigation Solutions products are engineered to provide resilient PNT performance for the warfighter operating in denied or degraded environments. This role directly ensures that GPS receivers and simulators maintain mission effectiveness when exposed to adversarial threats and operational challenges.

A key responsibility of this role is to develop and debug robust embedded software to fulfill strict performance requirements related to GPS user equipment. This role expands beyond coding, testing and debugging, and includes analysis of requirements, producing detailed documentation, conducting proof-of-concept evaluation of design alternatives, conducting code reviews, and other similar tasks.

Successful candidates perform complex professional software engineering assignments requiring advanced problem-solving skills. This requisition, and any potential offer, is contingent upon the award of government contracts and adherence to contract budgets.

• Actively contribute to embedded C/C++ development for GPS and related equipment, including integration and debugging on target hardware
• Develop high-quality documentation covering design details and demonstrating compliance to requirements
• Interpret customer specifications to assist in defining requirements for software design and modification.
• Support new programs from conceptual design, through detail design to completion.
• Support legacy programs through incremental modification, analysis, and test of existing solutions.
• Lead code reviews and provide technical guidance for other engineers on the software development team.
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent, and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience in the design and analysis of realtime embedded software. Master of Science or advanced degree preferred and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• 4+ years of experience in working as a team lead, technical lead, and/or subject matter expert for an embedded software development project
• 4+ years of experience as a technical contributor working with DoD / DoW customers or subcontractors
• 6+ years of experience with Python and C/C++

• Experience in embedded software development using either Linux or Windows
• Experience analyzing or designing algorithms for inertial measurement, signal processing, linear algebra, feedback control,…