Senior Staff Engineer, Ground Systems Software

Responsibilities

• Develop software architectures and code for complex, distributed, mission-critical systems.
• Design, develop, integrate, validate, deploy, and sustain software solutions.
• Develop ground control software enabling low-latency communication with UAVs and autonomous platforms.
• Build high-performance client and server applications for telemetry processing, mission planning, and real-time control.
• Implement responsive operator interfaces and spatial-data, sensor-feed, and mission-state visualization.
• Collaborate across autonomy, embedded systems, backend, UX, hardware, network, test, and integration teams.
• Derive software requirements from system-level requirements and operational needs, maintaining traceability.
• Participate in architecture trade studies, system decomposition, interface definition, requirements allocation, and technical decision-making.
• Support SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and related technical reviews.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, behavior documents, customer deliverables, and Interface Control Documents.
• Communicate technical concepts to engineering, program management, and customer stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of software architecture or technical leadership experience.
• Proficiency in a strongly typed programming language such as C#, TypeScript, Java, or C++.
• Exposure to lower-level systems or protocol integration.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Understanding of systems engineering processes and standards.
• Experience with requirements management and traceability.
• Experience using version control and CI/CD tools.
• Strong systems thinking, problem-solving, communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to translate complex system requirements into practical software solutions and balance technical, programmatic, and operational constraints.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, aviation, automotive, telecommunications, or other complex systems domains.
• Experience with ground control software, mission planning tools, or real-time visualization platforms.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler, MagicDraw, Stell, Jira, or Confluence.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
• Familiarity with Autonomy Government Reference Architectures (A-GRA), Open Mission Systems (OMS), or Universal Command & Control Interface.