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Location
Smyrna, GA (Metro Atlanta)
Project/Unit Description
The Georgia Tech Research Institute is seeking Software Test Engineers with Georgia Tech Research Institute's Airborne Test and Verification Branch in the Command, Control, and Communications Division (C3D) within the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) located in Smyrna, GA. Candidates will contribute to diverse tasks, including Software Development, aircraft sustainment, and modernization. Additionally, they will provide support for refining processes, enhancing tools, and managing datasets. This involves developing updated processes and tool sets while implementing continuous improvement practices to streamline workflows. Candidates should have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to develop creative solutions to complex technical and managerial problems.
Job Purpose
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform software development, debugging, modification, enhancement, and documentation.
- Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet program requirements.
- 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.
Additional Responsibilities
- Software architectures
- Communication protocols/machine-to-machine communications
- Software/performance optimization and testing
- Work in an integrated product team and understand system and unit-level requirements to create test plans and procedures.
- Utilize existing system specifications, interface definitions, and aircraft avionics in the development of test procedures.
Required Minimum Qualifications
- Experience in test engineering processes and methodologies applicable to complex, software-intensive military or avionics systems.
- Experience in developing and executing manual, ad-hoc, black-and-white box tests.
- Experience with C, C++, Java, and Python
- Experience with Linux, UNIX and Windows
- Experience with Embedded Systems development.
- Knowledgeable in version control software such as GIT
Preferred Qualifications
- Active Secret Clearance
- The ideal candidate has relevant experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Software architecture/open architecture
- Communication protocols/machine-to-machine communication
- Software/performance optimization and testing
- AGILE process
- XML
- Python
- Ada
- Kotlin
- Cybersecurity
- Experience working with Military Avionics Systems
Travel Requirements
<10% travel
Education and Length of Experience
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
- 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related field.
- 0 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related field.
U.S. Citizenship Requirements
Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.
Clearance Type Required
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.
Benefits at GTRI
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://hr.gatech.edu/benefits
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