Software Engineer (C++) Smart Mobility (Transportation)

Join us in improving and shaping the future of the smart mobility with a group of intelligent motivated and dedicated individuals! Leidos operates the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL) a US Department of Transportation (USDOT) onsite R&D lab located at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center. STOLs focus is on improving transportation system operations to achieve USDOTs safety mobility sustainability and equity goals. STOL spearheads a variety of exciting R&D projects involving emerging technologies including but not limited to infrastructure and vehicle connectivity and automation everything-in-the loop simulation and AI/ML modeling. To promote these efforts Leidos is looking for a Mid-level Software Engineer (C) to join our team!

Location: This role will be expected to work full-time at the customer site in McLean VA

Learn about STOL here: MUST:

All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States with proof of legal status and be eligible for a Public Trust Clearance which includes THREE (3) consecutive years in the United States WITHIN THE LAST FIVE (5) years.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead development for research prototypes and proof-of-concepts for various intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications across a variety of ITS devices including vehicles infrastructure and cloud systems.

• Participate in and help shape our open-source software process triaging and addressing issues reported by external users and evaluating 3rd party code contributions.

• Identify document and formulate approaches to addressing areas of technical debt.

• Conduct hands-on test events and demonstrations on-site at TFHRC and off-site at test facilities.

• Analyze and assess the teams existing ITS software systems to understand their architecture and how they can be redesigned into more modular scalable and maintainable components.

• Contribute to internal best practices for software development and lead knowledge sharing to support adoption across development teams.

• Work with cross-functional internal team to determine technical feasibility of projects breakdown project goals into software development tasks and assist with overall effort and timeline estimation of planned work.

• Lead the execution of planned technical work including design work addressing unplanned technical challenges and being responsive to changes in customer needs.

• Directly interact with on-site customer representatives and external stakeholders to communicate across technical disciplines as needed throughout a projects life cycle.

Minimal Qualifications

• Interest in working with emerging technologies and shaping the future of transportation.

• A Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering with at a MINIMUM of 4 years of professional experience in C software development or a Masters degree with at least 2 years of professional experience in C software development.

• Experience using CMake for building C packages.

• Experience with Git.

• Experience with Docker (including docker-compose).

• Software development experience with Java and/or Python.

• Experience developing in an Agile framework using toolsets such as JIRA and Confluence.

• Proficiency in software quality techniques and practices (automated unit testing test-driven design/development CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions static code analysis tools etc.).

• Understanding of mathematical fundamentals including geometry linear algebra probability graph theory set theory and statistics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing implementing and maintaining C software packages in a Linux environment.

• Experience with Linux build systems and package management systems.

• Software development experience with Java and/or Python.

• Experience with Kafka or similar message broker systems.

• Experience with Robot Operating System (ROS).

• Experience with user interface (UI) and/or front-end development.

• Familiarity with distributed computing and cloud computing concepts.

• Familiarity with one or more robotics concepts such as localization path planning perception or sensor fusion.

• Familiarity with simulation environments such as SUMO or CARLA or other simulators built in Unreal or Unity.

• Familiarity with existing CDA infrastructure standards and/or hardware such as those from SAE or IEEE.

• Experience in a fast-paced dynamic R&D environment.

• Experience as a software engineering team lead.

Anticipated salary range for this role is $95000-$105000

Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.

Were the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We dont wear capes (theyre a safety hazard) but we do solve high-stakes problems with code caffeine and a healthy disregard for how its always been done.

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