Software Engineer Lead

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Leidos Defense Systems is seeking a talented Software Engineer Lead to join a diverse team to create unique solutions for complex sensor and radar orientated problems. We have offices across the United States engaging in the defense space cyber and commercial fields we provide responsive cost-effective engineering scientific and IT solutions.

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Leidos Defense provides a diverse portfolio of systems solutions and services covering land sea air space and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT large-scale intelligence systems command and control geospatial and data analytics cybersecurity logistics training and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the worlds toughest security challenges for customers with cant fail missions. To explore and learn more click here!

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Primary Responsibilities

Candidate will lead the design development and sustainment of health and status monitoring applications support advanced technology radar programs including development of software for high-speed data acquisition distribution and real-time processing; integration of COTS and custom technologies into prototype sensor systems; field testing of RF sensors and systems; deployment of advanced sensor systems; and development of health and status monitoring user applications.

In this role you will provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers work closely with other skilled engineers as they deep-dive into existing software to find areas for improvement in both performance and processing latency. Y ou will guide architectural decisions oversee implementation of scalable monitoring frameworks and investigate and develop framework modifications to improve performance reliability and observability across radar programs.

You will also serve as the primary technical authority for health and status monitoring capabilities ensuring alignment with system requirements operational needs and long-term maintainability.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or Computer Science degree from an ABET-accredited school with a strong demonstration of the skills listed below plus 48 years of experience in software development including technical leadership experience.

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams including tasking mentoring code reviews configuration management and driving technical execution.

Strong teamwork skills and demonstrated expertise in the following:

• Modern C development

• Real-time Linux and device driver development

• ZeroMQ messaging and pub/sub frameworks

• Higher-level user application development particularly health/status monitoring or visualization tools

• Containerization

• Cloud-architecture & networking

• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (as well as maintain) a Final Secret Clearance.

• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville North Alabama AL area

Preferred Qualifications

Candidate with additional skills in the following is preferred:

• MATLAB

• Familiarity with Gitlab Pipeline development

• Experience with system health monitoring frameworks telemetry pipelines or observability platforms

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.

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