The Group supports the Missile Defense Agency in the development, deployment, testing, and enhancement of the nation's missile defense system. This system is currently being developed, to defend the United States, deployed forces, and allies from missile attacks. This group performs detailed system and component engineering, flight and ground test analysis, and advanced capability development in collaboration with the contractors and government program offices that are building the missile defense elements and components. The group has a need for a Software Developer to support the analysis of radar sensor performance metrics and exploitation of signature data in order to understand the real world missile threat as well as to evaluate missile defense system performance following flight tests.

Job Responsibilities:

Develops application software. Writing and implementing efficient code. Researches, designs, develops and implements software applications and systems. Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards. Evaluates, designs and implements interface between hardware and software, operational requirements, cloud offering, system architecture, security and characteristics of overall system. Researching, designing, implementing and managing software programs. Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications. Determining operational practicality. Documents testing, client experience and maintenance of system corrections. May partner and collaborate with cyber security teams to ensure compliance with security standards. May develop and conduct unit tests. The Software Developer will write tools to enable the analysis of radar sensor performance metrics and exploitation of signature data. Maintaining several bespoke software packages and optimizing work flows of radar processing with changes to these packages are also required.

Skills:

The candidate must have 3 years of experience using MATLAB; Detailed knowledge of C, C++ programming 3 years Experience with Software Design/Development 3 years Software Documentation 3 years Experience with revision control software such as GIT and GitLab 3 years Experience with third party libraries (ie google protocol buffers) Must possess excellent communication skills Masters degree Software/Algorithm Development Fortran Programming Object Oriented Software Design and Development Software Architecture XML and SQL Python Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects Ability to work well independently as well as with a team

Education/Experience:

Education:

Seeking candidates with a BS in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics or other STEM field with 3 years experience. Level of Effort - This is a part time position (30 hours/week).

Work location:

On-site — Candidate should expect to be onsite up to 5 days a week.

Travel:

Potential for very occasional optional travel (domestic)

Clearance:

Candidates must possess an active secret clearance to be considered for this position.

Interview Process:

Zoom call with HM and technical team w/potential second round interview (in person or zoom depending on candidates location