Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Description

Today, Electronic Warfare (EW) is a growing enterprise - protecting the warfighter and our national security against ever-adapting threats. Our EW divsision currently has an exciting opportunity for a 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

The successful candidate will have the following education/experience:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science
4+ years of software development experience, including strong experience in C/C++ software development
Experience using version control (Subversion, GIT, etc.) and continuous integration software tools (Jenkins)

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
Existing security clearance higher than the Secret level
Experience with Machine Learning and/or Artificial Intelligence algorithms and libraries, such as TensorFlow
Experience with MATLAB GPU computing
Experience with High Performance Computing including parallel and distributed computation
Experience with Model-Based Design code generation practices
Experience with cloud-based computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience with other programming languages such as Python and/or Java

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Electronic Warfare

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.