NAVAIR Software Engineer/Developer, Lead
- California, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Monitors research, analysis, design, development, test, or manufacturing operations.
- Provides oversight direction, management, and coordination of a significant technical effort.
- The incumbent serves as a representative for NAVAIR, interfacing with headquarters, contractors, and other government activities involved in the program.
- Furnishes technical advice and assistance to gov’t leads. Reports on technical direction of the program, planning and scheduling work, reporting results, progress, schedule adherence 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.
- Furnishes advice to the government on technical matters.
- Providing technical oversight and support strategic software planning.
- Serving as a hardware/software technical interface to Computer Scientist/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 (SW) 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/group 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. Apply tools such as but not limited to: Risk Management, Configuration Management, Data Management, Trade-off Analysis/Trade Studies, Technical Performance Measurement, Technical Reviews, Modeling & Simulation or Earned Value Management.
- Technical 4-yr degree and 8+ years of experience with the below.
- At least 3-4 years of experience in Aquisition Software Engineering.
- 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.