Radar Software IPT Lead

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Leidos Defense Open Sensors Division is seeking a Radar Software IPT 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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The Radar Software IPT Lead will execute and lead radar software engineering activities for the development of an advanced radar system. This role is both technical and managerial in nature the selected candidate will guide a team of software engineers in the development of software to meet customer requirements and specifications while ensuring adherence to cost and schedule constraints. The role requires deep understanding of radar and signal processing software as well as proficiency in project/program management concepts.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and staff multiple small software teams in software development activities.

• Support advanced technology radar software development testing delivery and deployment.

• Promote and implement agile software development processes.

• Estimate schedules based on agile team velocity.

• Track team progress and costs using EVM techniques.

• Present team progress and status to internal and external stakeholders.

• CONUS deployment of advanced sensor systems

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an ABET accredited college or university in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related technical field and 12-15 years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams on complexDoWprograms.

• Demonstrated experience accurately estimating the engineering effort associated with software engineering tasks and tracking progress via an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and application of good software engineering practices and processes.

• Experience leading a software team and being responsible for executing a scope of work within a project.

• Ability to create design documentation requirements specifications and other technical documentation.

• Good communication skills for working in a highly collaborative environment and interfacing with customers and other stakeholders.

• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville North Alabama AL area. This is NOT a remote position.

• Must be a US citizen possess or able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in high performance computing languages such as C including CUDA

• Experience with software containers using Podman or Docker.

• Experience with Ansible for software deployment in distributed systems.

• Experience in development or operations of radar HWILs

• Experience working on any radar or communications related program or project

• Experience utilizing AI tools to augment technical output (i.e. to improve/automate documentation or code generation)

• MS degree from an ABET accredited college or university in Computer Engineering or related technical field.

• Personnel / Line management experience

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