Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs hard real-time embedded software containing logical and mathematical solutions.
Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of embedded systems for safety and mission critical software.
Must be able to work and collaborate with a team of software engineers in an Agile environment to meet critical milestones.
Ensures program mandated software standards and compliance criteria are met.
Understands and can develop in a continuous integration tool chain environment meeting technical and compliance requirements.
Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
Work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated.
Determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior.
Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product.
Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and/or programs.
Acts as advisor to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications.

Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of relevant engineering experience, OR a Master's in STEM with 10 years of related engineering experience, OR a PhD in STEM with 8 years of related engineering experience
Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years
Experience in a formal technical lead position
Experience with C++ and object-oriented design
Experience with full life cycle of software development and Agile software development
Experience with architecting and/or writing requirements and/or developing software applications for flight system

Staff Engineer, Embedded Software

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