# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Albuquerque, NM
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos' Defense Sector – Directed Energy Division in Albuquerque, NM is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive software development for electro-mechanical-optical experiments on an applied R&D contract.

You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with Government researchers on hands-on experiments primarily in a laboratory. As a lead engineer on the team, you will own significant parts of the software behind testbed control, data acquisition, and optical tracking, and help guide the work of junior engineers.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Lead the design, development, integration, and testing of C/C++ software for testbeds, test equipment, and optical tracking systems in a Linux development environment.

- Translate test objectives from Government researchers into software requirements and architecture for electro-mechanical-optical experiments, and develop software control solutions.

- Develop real-time and embedded software, including single board computer (SBC) applications and hardware I/O interfaces to mechanical, electro-optical, and sensor equipment.

- Develop and maintain data acquisition, data reduction, and analysis tools, including operator interfaces and MATLAB/Simulink models where applicable.

- Drive continuous improvement of the team's software test and validation practices, DevOps/SecDevOps pipelines, and engineering workflows.

- Support the design, buildup, calibration, and field testing of custom testbeds and test equipment; troubleshoot integrated hardware, software, and network issues; and turn field test results into software enhancements.

- Serve as technical lead for small projects, mentoring junior engineers and peer-reviewing code and designs for quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.

- Communicate technical progress, risks, and solutions directly to Government customers and project stakeholders.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with 4+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with 2+ years of relevant experience.

- Hands-on software engineering and development experience.

- Professional experience writing C/C++ software in a Linux system development environment.

- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink.

- U.S. citizenship required, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with controls engineering.

- Experience with software architecture, software test and validation, and DevOps/SecDevOps practices.

- Experience with embedded systems development, real-time environment programming, and single board computer (SBC) development.

- Experience with mechanical equipment hardware I/O, testbed design, data acquisition development, and field testing.

- Experience with UI/UX development and network configuration and support.

- Knowledge of military radar, tracking, and target aimpoint correlation.

- A link (e.g., GitHub) to an example C++ program of your own design, included with your application.

**Benefits**

No benefits mentioned.

**Pay Range:** $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Linux
- MATLAB/Simulink
- software engineering
- embedded systems

### Nice to have
- controls engineering
- software architecture
- DevOps/SecDevOps
- UI/UX development
- network configuration

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