Principal Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Offer technical leadership for the design, integration, and validation of real-time RF sensor software systems.

• Architect, direct, and execute software components within a multidisciplinary team.

• Integrate signal-processing algorithms into open architecture software frameworks.

• Create integration tests and perform system-level validation testing.

• Troubleshoot real-time, multithreaded, and distributed systems.

• Transition MATLAB/Python algorithm prototypes into optimized production C/C++ implementations.

• Document software designs, testing procedures, results, technical reports, integration plans, briefings, and customer presentations.

• Assist with system demonstrations and field-testing activities.

• Establish best practices for software quality, configuration management, test automation, documentation, and technical risk management.

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

• Interact with government sponsors, customers, program managers, and technical stakeholders.

• Lead or significantly contribute to proposal development, including technical strategies, work breakdown planning, technical writing, cost estimation, white papers, and customer presentations.

• Contribute to user interfaces, dashboards, and visualization tools for system observability, test execution, data analysis, and integration workflows.

• Support approximately 10% travel for integration events, field testing, and customer demonstrations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret-level security clearance.

• Ability to acquire and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.

• U.S. citizenship is required for the government clearance requirement.

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with relevant experience based on degree: BS + 12 years, MS + 10 years, or PhD + 5 years.

• Ten or more years of professional software development experience, including leading complex software development, integration, and testing efforts.

• Expert-level proficiency in programming for high-performance, real-time applications.

• Experience with version control systems, including Git.

• Proficiency in Linux.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience in developing or integrating real-time software for signal-processing, embedded, distributed, or hardware-connected systems.

• Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience.

• Experience contributing significantly to proposal efforts, including technical writing, technical approach development, cost estimation, and customer presentations.

• Active Top Secret clearance is preferred; TS/SCI is preferred.

• Proficiency in Python or MATLAB is preferred.

• Experience with hands-on hardware testing and lab equipment is preferred.

• Familiarity with signal processing and RF sensor-system architectures is preferred.

• Experience in real-time or embedded software development is preferred.

• Knowledge of multithreaded programming and synchronization is preferred.

• Understanding of open architecture principles and standards is preferred.

• Experience in developing user interfaces, dashboards, or visualization tools is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Approximately 10% travel for integration events, field testing, and customer demonstrations.

• Collaborative learning environment.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Reasonable accommodation support.