Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The Aviation Embedded Software Engineer role involves designing, developing, and integrating software for tactical strike and airborne systems, focusing on innovative flight and mission software solutions.
This position involves conceptual design across the full stack of software for airborne systems, embedded software architectural design, code implementation, team peer review, unit testing, cohesive integration of loosely coupled software modules within subsystems and across distributed networks, use of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, and development of software tools, harnesses, and infrastructures to support a fully integrated solution.
Direct communication with customers, end users, internal stakeholders, and team members will be required on a frequent basis.
Qualification
Required
Candidate must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Candidate should have 0-8 years of relevant technical experience.
Have a proven track record of implementing software according to high quality development principles.
Candidate must demonstrate a strong competency in software development in either C, C++, Java, or Python programming languages.
Working knowledge of inter-process communication, multithreaded programming, and memory management.
Have experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.
Possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software development, configuration management, and software quality engineering concepts.
Have strong analytical and process improvement skills along with a personal drive for details and quality workmanship.
Possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software test and software quality engineering concepts.
Candidate is expected to accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.
Demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
Have excellent teamwork and communication skills.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
Preferred
Experience working under a disciplined software engineering process.
The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiple small teams.
Familiarity with embedded software such as device drivers, board support packages, boot loaders, Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), and Hardware Description Language (HDL).
Familiarity with hardware such as microcontrollers, single board computers, common peripheral interfaces, and hardware test equipment.
Benefits
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.
