Hypersonic Software Developer

2 months ago


King George, United States Amentum Full time

Amentum is seeking Software Engineering professionals with software development related education and/or experience to support software development, integration, and testing in support of Dahlgren, VA. This position will be partially remote and partially on-site as tasking requires.

You will be part of our growing systems & software engineering team and contribute to our diverse skillsets across multiple contracts in support of our Centers of Excellence. We are looking for individuals to join our team atmosphere that are eager to make a difference by solving complex Digital Engineering challenges.

Apply your skills to the latest DoD weapons and sensor systems, modernizing the Navy and contributing to mission success. Successful candidates must possess excellent communication skills and interact directly with customers and engineering personnel.

Hypersonic Software Developer Responsibility Includes:

  • Being responsible for designing, developing, and testing a central Software System mainly written in C++11.

  • Executing agile like processes to iteratively design and develop necessary changes to maintain, fix bugs, and add new features.

  • Providing change support for the full lifecycle: design, implementation, test, and verification alongside other team members specialized in design, testing, data analysis, and development.

  • Learning and sharing Domain Experience and technical skills.

  • The work location for this position is partially remote, with the ability to be on-site in Dahlgren Virginia at least 4-days per week as required to complete tasking

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent experience with 2-7 years of experience.

  • Must be able to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance (at a minimum, must receive/be approved for an interim Secret security clearance in order to start) Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a SECRET Clearance.

  • Ability to work with a Team-of-Teams: developers, testers, engineers, Subject-Matter-Experts and other staff as needed.

  • Ability to communicate effectively with leadership.

  • Ability and desire to learn required Domain Knowledge, toolsets, and technical frameworks (tech stack) as needed.

  • Proficient at Advanced C++ Development: C++11 Standard (IE: auto, smart memory management, and lambdas (anonymous functions)), C++ Standard Library, Maps, vectors, trees, threads, iterators, move semantics, et cetera.

  • Proficient in Concurrency (IE: threading, program event loop management, race conditions, mutexes/semaphores, et cetera), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Encapsulation/Abstraction/Polymorphism, Class State Management and Inheritance.

Bonus Experience:

  • Frameworks: Qt – GUI Framework

  • I/O: Databases – document data model and SQL to manage state and persist data, File Descriptors – to access settings and configurations.

  • Low-Level: Bit Operations, Binary Encoded Messages, Socket based communication (IE UDP, TCP, Serial)

  • Proficient at developing on large code bases

  • Proficient at Debugging complex, distributed systems.

  • Familiarity with GDB (GNU Project Debugger) and Wireshark

  • Data Log processing and inspection for bug tracing

  • Coredumps

  • Proficient developing on Linux (CentOS/RHEL)

  • cd, ls, grep, find, vim, POSIX, everything is a file concept, signals, et cetera.

  • IDEs will be available: Eclipse and QtCreator. Others available upon approval by IT.

  • Familiarity with Make and CMake a plus.

  • Cross-Language Proficiency: Ability to inspect, modify, and code in other languages as necessary (IE Python, Bash Scripting, JavaScript)

Domain Knowledge (Preferred to have some subset of below – not required)

  • Radars – Interfacing and Data Processing: Familiar with Radar Reference Frames and translations to other Frames, Familiar with basic radar terminology, radar output data, and radar concepts, Tracking/Filtering

  • Radar measurement(s) to track association

  • Gun Weapon Systems – Interfacing and Management

  • Time Sequencing and Planning: Designing effective algorithms and validation of edge cases, Decision Trees, State Machines – design and/or usage.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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