Real-Time Software Engineer

Today Electronic Warfare (EW) is a growing enterprise - protecting the warfighter and our national security against ever-adapting threats. Our division currently has an exciting opportunity for a Real-Time Software Engineer to perform design development and hardware/software integration in Arlington VA for the Electronic Warfare Division

Our division primarily focuses on research & development and advanced prototyping transforming state of the art signal processing algorithms into real-time software systems.

Projects involve small multi-disciplinary teams of engineers working together in spiral or agile development environments to meet aggressive customer schedules aimed at near-term field demonstrations. Join a team of experts in implementing high-performance signal processing on general purpose processors such as ARM.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Contributing to design and development of advanced systems as a part of multi-disciplinary teams. These teams are made up of other software team members and subject matter experts from the areas of systems engineering hardware firmware machine learning RF front end design and signal processing.

Designing implementing and testing real-time C/C software for multi-core systems running Linux or a real-time operating systems such as VxWorks

Build software products that utilize third party mathematics and communication libraries

Interface communication standards / protocols such as TCP/IP UDP and DDS Read and understand signal processing algorithms written in MATLAB

Work with Linux operating system as well as experience with real-time operating systems

Designing implementing and testing software to configure and control RF hardware devices

Integrating software into third-party software frameworks and architectures such as Redhawk Documenting the developed systems

Support system field testing and collection events usually about a week in duration once or twice a year

At Leidos we offer competitive benefits including 4 or more weeks Paid Time Off 11 paid Holidays 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting Flexible Schedules Discounted Stock Purchase Plans Technical Upskilling Education and Training Support Parental Paid Leave and much more. Join us and make a difference in Electronic Warfare Technology!

The successful candidate will have the following basic education/experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or related discipline

• 4 years of software development experience including strong experience in programming in Python MATLAB or C

• Strong understanding of object-oriented design

• Basic understanding of hardware-software interaction and basic computer architecture

• Experience with hardware interfaces (e.g. PCIe UART Ethernet)

• Experience with build tools (e.g. GCC CMake or Make)

• Experience using version control (e.g. git Subversion) and continuous integration software tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Experience with software testing tools and methodology

• Experience in creating and maintaining technical documentation fordeveloped software

• Ability to communicate and share ideas concepts and designs with a team of engineers

• Demonstrated ability and motivation to continually learn new technical skills and concepts

• Understanding of unit test frameworks and test-driven development practices

• Must have active Secret level security clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.

Bonus education/experience:

• Masters Degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science or equivalent

• Active security clearance higher than the Secret level

• Ability to debug embedded systems using tools like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers

• Experience maintaining tracking and updating ticket/status using Gitlab or similar interface

• Experience using common scripting languages (e.g. bash)

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Electronic Warfare

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