Onsite Principal Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Software Engineer at Leonardo DRS designing and developing electronic warfare systems. Leading projects and mentoring engineers in a collaborative environment focused on defense and intelligence technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for driving technology and completion of activity on time and budget
  • Design, develop, analyze, document and support testing of products, systems or subsystems
  • Ability to complete a technical project independently
  • Mentor and coach other engineers
  • Review customer specifications and requirements, and develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
  • Provide budget, cost and schedule input for design assignments
  • Document component and subsystem specifications and material requirements
  • Analyze designs as necessary
  • Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems and services
  • Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
  • Develop prototypes to retire key development risks
  • Communicate clearly (written and oral) with manufacturing, supply chain, program management and the customer as required
  • Participate heavily in preparation of the more complex and significant proposals
  • Provide technical expertise and assistance to other engineers and support personnel
  • Interact with technical management, other professionals, technicians and support personnel to coordinate, recommend and confer regarding technical activities and progress
  • Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
  • Attend appropriate engineering, customer or business meetings
  • Involved with the design, development, analysis, testing and debugging of computer software applications and/or systems
  • Develop software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools
  • Determine hardware compatibility
  • Complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance
  • Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
  • Ability to lead a technical team independently

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience
  • Mastery of technologies and domain knowledge
  • Significant experience in multiple engineering disciplines
  • Experience with C, C++ or C# with strong object-oriented skillset
  • Preferred: Experience with Rust programming language
  • Crypto experience, including integrating cryptography into production systems (encryption, key management, signatures), especially HAIPE
  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Company contribution to a health savings account
  • Telemedicine
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Legal insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan
  • Wellness programs that focus on physical, emotional, and financial well-being
  • Flexible work schedules with a 9/80 program
  • Competitive vacation
  • Health/emergency leave
  • Paid parental leave
  • Community service hours

Job title

Principal Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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