# Aviation Software Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

We are seeking a talented Flight and Mission Software Development Lead to work onsite in our Huntsville, AL office.

As a Software Engineering Applications Department Lead at Leidos, you will lead a talented software team through Agile development practices while actively contributing to the codebase.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Scrum Master & Agile Leadership: Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

- IPT Leadership & Strategic Decision-Making: Lead a Software Integrated Product Team (IPT) with authority to make high-level technical and programmatic decisions.

- Active Software Development: Actively contribute to the codebase, conducting design reviews, writing production code, performing code reviews, troubleshooting complex technical issues.

- Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison coordinating between hardware engineers, test engineers, systems engineers, program management, and other engineering disciplines.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree.

- 8+ years of relevant technical experience with demonstrated hands-on software development.

- 3+ years of relevant experience leading teams, managing resources for software development, and serving in Scrum Master or similar Agile facilitation roles.

- Strong hands-on development experience in C, C++, Rust, C#, or Java.

- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and team leadership skills.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Agile/Scrum Expertise: Formal training or certification as a Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) or SAFe Product Owner.

- Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Proven track record coordinating software development with hardware engineering teams, test organizations, systems engineering, program management, and leadership stakeholders on integrated defense systems.

- Software Development: Experience with planning, specification, design, development, integration, installation/deployment, and maintenance of software for airborne systems, mission planning systems, missile/weapon platforms, uncrewed or autonomous systems, and/or ground control/support systems.

**Security Clearance Qualifications**

- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.

The pay range for this position is $107,900.00 - $195,050.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Scrum
- C
- C++
- Rust
- C#
- Java
- software development
- team leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- Agile/Scrum Expertise
- Cross-Discipline Collaboration
- Python
- .NET/C#
- Qt
- XML

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