Software Engineer

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Sector employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers success. We empower our teams contribute to our communities and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers our people and our community. Our Mission Vision and Values guide the way we do offices across the United States engaging in the defense space cyber and commercial fields Leidos provides responsive cost-effective engineering scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture positive work environment technical excellence and resilient business ethics.

Within the Defense Sector the Software Engineering Applications Department at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Software Engineer to work in our Huntsville office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help develop software for tactical strike sensors CUAS and UAS solutions.

This position focuses on the development of robust innovative software frameworks as well as the fielding support and maintenance of software products. Software products range from analysis tools/simulations mission planning software and components of mission-critical systems.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust C C# and Python software under the direction of a senior software engineer.

• Assist with creating and executing unit and integration tests on software components.

• Perform as part of an agile software development team for tasking and progress reporting.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with the team.

• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues and bugs in a timely manner.

• Other software development duties as assigned.

• Use GitLab software pipeline for performing configuration management and automated testing

• Direct communication with customers end users and team members will be required on a frequent basis.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidate must possess at least a bachelors degree in software engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Mathematics or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.

• Candidate should have 4-8 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years with MS degree.

• Have a proven track record of implementing software development principles.

• Candidate must demonstrate a strong competency in software development in C and/or C#.

• Have experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.

• Possess an aptitude for the technical skillsrequired for software development configuration management and software quality engineeringconcepts.

• Have strong analytical and process improvement skills along with apersonal drive for details and quality workmanship.

• Possess an aptitude for the technical skillsrequired for software test and software quality engineeringconcepts.

• Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office(Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint).

• Have good communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with applicable industry standards (MIL-STD-882E) is a plus.

• Candidate is expected to accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.

• The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiplesmall teams is highly desirable.

Security Clearance Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.

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