Software Engineering Lead

About the Team

STRs Analytics Division develops novel technologies to solve challenging national security problems through advanced analytics. Our team consists of passionate motivated individuals with degrees in engineering computer science mathematics physics and data science. We use our expertise and creativity to take innovative ideas from conception to mature implementation in order to improve mission success of our customers.

The Collaborative Autonomy and Controls (CAC) Group in the Analytics Division is focused on collaborative autonomy for multiagent reconnaissance systems operating in multiple domains. By leveraging expertise with machine learning advanced algorithms and software development best practices we build tools that can make a difference in mission planning autonomous systems reasoning tracking of illicit activities and more.

The Role:

Work as part of a tightly knit team to design develop implement and demonstrate advanced algorithms and software systems. Provide technical leadership and mentoring on programs working throughout the software lifecycle from early prototypes to integrated systems. Provide overall software product ownership and quality assurance for an end program software solution or group software product line. Work on a diverse set of applications including software for distributed mission planning and autonomous reasoning for both manned and unmanned platforms. Conduct software design and code reviews as part of an agile development process.

This position is based in one of our offices (Woburn MA or Arlington VA) but will take advantage of STRs flexible hybrid environment when the work does not require use of STRs facilities you are welcome to work remotely.

Who You Are:

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field with 7 years relevant experience
• Demonstrated expertise in Java or C
• Experience designing building testing debugging and maintaining a large code base
• Experience with databases AWS performance tuning and concurrency/asynchronous code
• Proven ability to lead and manage moderate size engineering teams 1020 engineers) through complete Agile development lifecycle including task definition delegation and maintenance
• Demonstrated success driving industry best practices in areas such as code review unit testing test coverage static analysis etc. to ensure mature high quality software products
• Experience in leading system/software architecture design
• Comfortable working both with internal leadership and external customers in the development and of software product plans
• Experience utilizing the following:
• Microservice architectures
• Containerization/orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Agile software lifecycle methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Sonarqube
• Testdriven development methodologies
• ObjectOriented Programming principles
• A demonstrated ability to adopt new languages libraries and technologies
• Ability to obtain a security clearance for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government

Even Better:

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Domain experience in collaborative distributed autonomy software systems for unmanned vehicles
• Experience with any of the following:
• DevOps or CI/CD tools such as Gitlab
• Distributed computing with Kafka event streams
• Simulation systems for livevirtualconstructive modeling
• Provisioning and maintenance of AWS resources
• Integration of complex software systems
• Constraint optimization algorithms
• Familiarity with ModelBased Systems Engineering (MBSE) concepts experience with Catia Cameo modeling tools
• Active Security Clearance

STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston MA Arlington VA near Dayton OH Melbourne FL and Carlsbad CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense intelligence and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors radar sonar communications and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.

STRis committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer.

STR is not just any company. Our people culture and attitude along with their unique set of skills experiences and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We cant do it alone though we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us atwww.str.usfor more info.

STRis an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race color religion sex (including gender identity sexual orientation and pregnancy) marital status national origin age veteran status disability genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.