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Leonardo DRS · 4 hours ago

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Burnsville, MN

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$128K/yr - $218K/yr

10+ years exp

Leonardo DRS is a leader in naval electronics, providing advanced computing infrastructure and services. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will lead software architecture and design for tactical components in U.S. Navy electronics, focusing on integrating combat systems and sensor technologies.

AerospaceCyber SecurityInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyMarine TechnologyNational SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityTechnical SupportTraining

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Serve as Software Architect for combat systems software on small or medium surface vessels

Create and maintain software architecture with UML diagrams using modeling tools using the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) or other technical standards

Author, derive, allocate and trace requirements for new or improved software products or services

Review customer specifications and requirements, and develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable

Provide technical knowledge, assistance, and mentoring to other engineers and support personnel

Architect, maintain and support software development environments using virtual machines, containers, hypervisors (e.g. OpenShift, ESXi), and test equipment

Participate on teams authoring technical sections and Basis-of-Estimates on responses to government Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposals (RFP)

Apply parametric software estimation models to support labor bids

Author technical proposal language that satisfy requirements

Serve as lead software engineer on development projects

Design, development, analysis, testing, integration (on hardware) and debugging of computer software applications and/or system

Software applications and systems may include Image and Signal Processing, Real-time, Firmware, Database Design, Operating Systems, Operator/Machine Interface, networking and communications, or others

This includes working with previously written code to make bug fixes and improvements

Development and deployment performed on Red Hat Linux OS with Red Hawk real-time extensions

Architect/Design, maintain and support software development environments using Virtual Machines (VM), containers, hypervisors (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, ESXi), and test equipment

Perform unit and system-level analysis to measure performance, cost, schedule, and risk trade-offs

Support software qualification efforts, development of test software and qualification plans, test activities, and failure analysis efforts

Support and/or lead Internal Research and Development (IR&D) projects, which may include prototype design and development to retire key development risks

Qualification

Software ArchitectureAgile SCRUMLinux DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringSoftware Architecture ModelingVirtualization PlatformsSoftware APIs DevelopmentRequirements ManagementArchitecture PatternsTechnical Proposal WritingData InterpretationEdge AI IntegrationInterpersonal Skills

Required

Technical degree (Master or Bachelor of Science) in relevant field (Computer Science, or related field of study) with at least 10 years of direct experience related to Software Engineering and must have demonstrated success in solving technical problems

U.S. Citizenship required

This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment

Preferred

Background in Software Engineering, including participation in multi-discipline, cross-functional Agile Scrum teams on significant software development efforts

Proficiency in Software Architecture Modeling using tools such as Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems)

Experience with Agile SCRUM and DevSecOps practices

Familiarity with requirements management processes and tools (e.g. DOORS)

Familiarity with software lifecycle processes such as requirements, design, implementation, version control, testing and maintenance

Familiarity with legacy, new and emerging distributed software architectures (e.g., client/server, thin client, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Microservices, hardware virtualization, Saas, PaaS, IaaS, mobile computing)

Proficiency in Architecture and Design Patterns (e.g. MVC, Pub-Sub, Strangler)

Fluency in multiple software programming languages (e.g., Java, C, C++)

Fluency in virtualization platforms for VMs and containers such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, ESXi in a linux development/deployment environment

Fluency in developing in and for Linux operating systems (e.g., Red Hat, Ubuntu)

Experience in multiple software domains (e.g., algorithm development, middleware services, operating systems, hardware integration, combat systems, human interfaces, test harnesses, formal methods)

Ability to develop software APIs using technologies such as OMG DDS, AMQP, ZMTP, etc

Experience gathering and interpreting data, generating summaries and presentations, and presenting to technical and management leaders and peers

Professional demeanor, good interpersonal skills, and ability to excel in a high-paced multi-tasked environment

Ability to author engineering responses to government RFI, RFP, etc

Ability to understand and integrate Edge AI APIs into software system designs