Principal Software Engineer, Geospatial Mission Systems

MAG Aerospace is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, integrate, and sustain mission-critical situational-awareness software. The role provides hands-on technical leadership for geospatial applications that ingest sensor data, manage geospatial information, and display operational tracks.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, development, integration, and sustainment of geospatial and situational-awareness applications supporting defense and mission operations
• Design and maintain client, server, database, and service components within distributed software architectures
• Develop map-based user interfaces and data-visualization capabilities for manned and unmanned air, surface, ground, subsurface, and related operational tracks
• Integrate software with radars, sensors, external data feeds, and mission-system interfaces
• Build and refine geospatial components using vector, terrain, imagery, and open-source mapping data
• Design solutions for geospatial data storage, querying, transformation, dissemination, and display
• Evaluate and incorporate new mapping technologies, open standards, data formats, and open-source components
• Translate customer and operator needs into software requirements, technical designs, prototypes, and production releases
• Provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, including design reviews, coding, testing, documentation, deployment, and sustainment
• Diagnose complex software, data, network, and systems-integration issues in development and operational environments
• Mentor engineers and establish sound development, integration, and documentation practices
• Build trusted relationships with government customers, end users, systems engineers, and partner development teams
• Deliver technical demonstrations, training, documentation, and user support as needed
• Contribute to technical planning, solution development, and customer discussions for follow-on capabilities

Requirements:

• 10+ years of progressive software-development experience, including technical leadership or ownership of complex applications
• Demonstrated experience developing mapping, GIS, geospatial visualization, or situational-awareness software
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Java and at least one additional language such as JavaScript, C++, or Python
• Experience with distributed or client-server architectures, databases, APIs, and networked services
• Experience integrating real-time or near-real-time data from sensors, radars, tracking systems, or other external sources
• Working knowledge of geospatial data types and services, such as vector data, terrain/elevation data, imagery, OpenStreetMap, spatial databases, or web map services
• Ability to lead work across requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, test, deployment, and sustainment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to customers and end users
• Ability to work effectively in a defense-contracting environment with geographically distributed teams and mission stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, geographic information science, or a related technical field
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• Master's degree in computer science, geographic information science, or a related field
• Experience with maritime domain awareness, command and control, C2/C4ISR/C5ISR, mission planning, or battlespace visualization
• Experience with radar tracks, sensor fusion, track management, tactical data, or operational common-picture applications
• Experience with mapping frameworks such as Leaflet, OpenMap, ArcGIS, or comparable geospatial SDKs
• Experience with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, MySQL, or another spatially enabled database
• Familiarity with NGA data products and formats such as RPF, DTED, or VPF
• Familiarity with Open Geospatial Consortium standards and services, including WMS or comparable interfaces
• Experience maintaining or contributing to open-source software and supporting a technical user community
• Experience developing simulation, training, after-action review, or spatial-analysis applications
• Prior experience delivering software directly to U.S. Government or Department of Defense customers
• Active U.S. security clearance