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The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking experienced Software Engineers who have interest in intellectually challenging and rewarding work. These positions reside in the Huntsville Research Center and support research and development activities for the Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation. Qualified applicants will support specification, development, and verification of avionics software and software emulation for aviation avionics components and unmanned systems.

The Software Engineer designs, develops, and tests software applications and products. Additionally, the Software Engineer manages software development teams, provides technical leadership, and establishes software development lifecycle practices and processes. The Software Engineer is proficient in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Scala, and Groovy. In this role, the Software Engineer requires extensive knowledge of programming languages, software development, computer operating systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps, Application Programming Interface (API) development, container development, and distributed systems. The Software Engineer also applies engineering principles to software creation, manages production releases of software, performs code reviews, merges feature development branches, and analyzes and triages issues. The necessary skill areas for the Software Engineer include programming and coding, fundamentals of computer science, software design and architecture development, algorithms and data structures, information analysis, software debugging and testing, and working on development teams. The Software Engineer also works with sponsors to curate requirements, define sprint work items, set priorities for work backlogs, and organize development teams.

• Perform software development, debugging, modification, enhancement, and documentation.
• Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet program requirements.
• Apply expertise in computing systems to define requirements and develop software designs recognizing limitations of target hardware platforms.
• Develop and maintain kernel and user-level software and scripts.
• Contribute to research reports, presentations, white papers, and competitive proposals.
• Create and analyze network protocols.

• Analyze, design, and develop software running on various multi-core embedded target systems with considerations to Modular Open Systems Architecture best practices, and applicable standards.
• Participate in the development of software artifacts in support of airworthiness analysis and certification.
• Conduct analysis of existing for conformance to open standards such as Future Airborne Capability Environment.
• Conduct systems engineering activities in support of the development of software intensive aviation components and applications.
• Support the development of software via system engineering processes and practices.

• Excellent skills and practice in programming with one or more software languages; Python, C#, C++.
• Debugging skills and practice in the use of debugging tools.
• Extensive Experience in modeling and simulation.
• Very good communication skills in written and spoken English.
• Experience with Agile Software Development, Continuous integration/Deployment Processes, and/or Test-Driven Development.

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience with developing Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Applications.
• Working knowledge of RTOS's including Green Hills and VxWorks.
• Experience with avionics interfaces e.g., ARINC-429, ARINC-653, ARINC-661.
• Understanding of interrupts, security, EXE bootloader, stages.
• Experience with embedded graphics libraries (OpenGL ES or OpenGL SC).
• Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standard experience.
• Software development processes for Flight-Critical and Safety-Critical Software; MBSE, DOORS, SCADE, etc.

• <10% travel.

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 3 years of related experience with a Masters' degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 0 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

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