Software Engineer – Mid-Career (Undersea Systems)

About the role

The Undersea Systems Division at Leidos is hiring a mid-career Software Engineer in San Diego, CA. You will join a fast-paced engineering group that rapidly prototypes a variety of ocean systems, working with a medium-sized team that holds full technical responsibility for custom development and prototyping across many disciplines. Prototyping spans problem-solving, concept development, iterative design and testing, and ends with product demonstrations.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to identify embedded firmware and software requirements and evaluate design approaches for solving technical problems.
• Architect and design maintainable, robust and performant embedded firmware and software platforms, including build and test processes.
• Implement, test, integrate and verify firmware and software against project requirements for functionality, reliability and usability, and team standards.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation, interface control documents (ICD) and software requirements specifications (SRS).
• Coordinate development across the engineering group, anticipate design changes, prioritize features and bug fixes, and gather team feedback.

Required profile

• U.S. citizen able to obtain a SECRET security clearance; active SECRET clearance preferred.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering or another STEM field.
• 5+ years of development and integration experience in one or more of the listed platforms (Linux apps, Yocto/Buildroot, NVIDIA Jetson, RTOS or bare-metal microcontrollers, ROS 2).
• Experience testing firmware/software and debugging complex embedded electro-mechanical systems.
• Ability to understand complex technical documents and communicate ideas orally and visually.
• Physical ability to move around piers and docks, climb ladders up to 20 ft, work in loud production environments and occasionally work aboard marine vessels overnight.

Required skills

• C programming and Linux command-line tools and Bash scripting.
• Version control (Subversion, Git) and embedded communications protocols (SPI, RS-232, Ethernet).
• Preferred: OpenCV, DSP, robotics simulation, embedded IDEs (MPLAB, GCC, GNU Make), Matlab/Python, test automation, GUI experience.

Pay range: $87,100 - $157,450.