Software Engineer - ELSYS - Tucson, AZ - Hybrid - (Open Rank)

The Software Engineer designs, develops, and tests software applications and products. Additionally, the Software Engineer manages software development teams, provides technical leadership, and establishes software development lifecycle practices and processes. The Software Engineer is proficient in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Scala, and Groovy. In this role, the Software Engineer requires extensive knowledge of programming languages, software development, computer operating systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps, Application Programming Interface (API) development, container development, and distributed systems. The Software Engineer also applies engineering principles to software creation, manages production releases of software, performs code reviews, merges feature development branches, and analyzes and triages issues. The necessary skill areas for the Software Engineer include programming and coding, fundamentals of computer science, software design and architecture development, algorithms and data structures, information analysis, software debugging and testing, and working on development teams. The Software Engineer also works with sponsors to curate requirements, define sprint work items, set priorities for work backlogs, and organize development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform software development, debugging, modification, enhancement, and documentation
• Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet program requirements
• Develop and maintain kernel and user-level software and scripts
• Contribute to research reports, presentations, white papers, and competitive proposals
• Create and analyze network protocols

Additional Responsibilities

• Work closely with Department of Defense (DoD) customers and system end-users to ensure implementations meet their operational needs, and assist in identifying future system requirements
• Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet requirements
• Integrate Open Architecture Enclaves into Guard and Reserve aircraft and coordinate closely with several active duty USAF projects
• As part of OMS team, oversee development, integration, testing and fielding of aircraft capability
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Understanding of modern fighter aircraft architectures with knowledge of Open Systems integration
• Experience with containerized computing
• Experience with application deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance
• Experience with DoD cloud based platforms
• Experience writing test procedures and plans for complex and multi-faceted DOD systems, platforms, and environments
• Development, Security, and Operations (DEVSECOPS) experience

Travel Requirements

25% - 50% travel

Education and Length of Experience

Levels 2, 3

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field
• 0 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.