NAVAIR Software Engineer/Developer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Monitors research, analysis, design, development, test, or manufacturing operations.
• Provides oversight direction, management, and coordination of a significant technical effort.
• Serves as a representative for NAVAIR, interfacing with headquarters, contractors, and other government activities involved in the program.
• Furnishes technical advice and assistance to leads on technical direction of the program, planning and scheduling work, reporting results, progress, schedule and overall accomplishments of the work.
• Reviews data, reports, studies, designs, design documentation, tests, or equipment to determine conformance with contract technical requirements.
• Conducts technical reviews to determine the acceptability of changes to contract required services or equipment and/or determines the usability of items not meeting the requirements of the contract.
• Provides technical advice to the government on technical matters.
• Providing direct systems engineering/scientific support to and advising on engineering requirements, technical issues, and risks related to software development.
• Providing technical oversight and support strategic software planning.
• Serving as a hardware/software technical interface to computer scientists/engineering community on related software engineering activities and issues.
• Providing real-time access to SMEs for problem assessment and resolution.
• Providing software engineering technical support and representation.
• Providing technical oversight into the Program Increment (PI) priority workloads.
• Providing concurrence, if applicable, on contractor proposed changes to processes and software development plans.
• Identifies and solves a wide variety of complex problems with many competing objectives, variables, and constraints.
• Delivers optimized technical solutions that are balanced to achieve required technical performance within cost, schedule, and technology constraints.
• Functions as a member of an integrated team providing technical guidance to a technical workforce and meeting customer requirements for products and/or services.
• Coordinate small to medium segments of a project/program using tools such as Risk Management, Configuration Management, Data Management, Trade-off Analysis/Trade Studies, Technical Performance Measurement, Technical Reviews, Modeling & Simulation, or Earned Value Management.

Requirements

• Technical 4-year degree and 1+ years of experience.
• Experience in engineering or computer science with an emphasis on software engineering/development of software systems.
• Experience in software requirements allocation, design, software process management, open architecture principles, software integration and test.
• Knowledge of processes for software system design, test, and interoperability, planning and management.
• Knowledge of military avionics systems, components, and software and related design attributes (highly desired).
• Knowledge of systems engineering procedures, processes, practices, and tools as related to avionics and weapons systems and technology (highly desired).
• Proven ability to effectively communicate at all levels within an organization, with effective interpersonal skills and an ability to resolve conflicting views and information.
• Active or ability to obtain a Secret clearance, must be a US citizen.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of military avionics systems, components, and software.
• Knowledge of systems engineering procedures, processes, practices, and tools related to avionics and weapons systems and technology.

Qualifications

• 4-year technical degree.
• 1+ years of relevant experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of USD $77,600.00/Yr. - USD $129,600.00/Yr.
• Comprehensive benefits program including healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.