Senior Software Engineer

Salary Range: 160000 to 240000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What You'll Do:

• Research and develop advanced state estimation and navigation algorithms to ensure assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) in contested environments. 
• Design, write, and deploy production-quality C++ software for aviation platforms requiring real-time, deterministic performance. 
• Build and maintain comprehensive unit, integration, and system-level tests to validate navigation software performance under operational constraints. 
• Develop modeling, calibration, and simulation tools for inertial and aided navigation technologies used in airborne platforms. 
• Participate in agile-based product planning, feature definition, capacity estimation, and cross-team collaboration. 
• Contribute to ongoing system performance evaluation, regression analysis, and V&V (Verification and Validation) efforts. 

Required Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++11 or newer) and professional experience developing software for embedded Linux systems. 
• Experience designing and deploying state estimation algorithms (e.g., EKF, UKF) in real-world defense or aerospace applications. 
• Familiarity with developing for constrained environments requiring deterministic timing and high reliability. 
• Professional experience with continuous integration (CI) workflows and automated C++ testing. 
• Practical understanding of inertial navigation systems (INS), GNSS integration, and navigation error modeling. 
• Ability to deploy and maintain robust, efficient, production-level C++ code. 
• Familiarity with MATLAB or Python for prototyping is acceptable; however, primary development experience must be in C++. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing and deploying assured PNT systems for DoD customers. 
• Expertise calibrating and integrating IMUs, GPS receivers, magnetometers, and barometric sensors. 
• Familiarity with alternative navigation techniques, such as celestial navigation, terrain-aided navigation, or vision-based navigation (VBN). 
• Experience validating and verifying navigation systems in operational test environments.

Note:

• Candidates will be asked to complete a C++ coding exercise as part of the interview process to assess comfort with modern software design practices and system-level thinking.