Software Engineering Lead

🚀 Software Engineering Lead

📍 Location: Hybrid | Woburn, MA
🏢 Department: Analytics Division
📅 Employment Type: Full-Time

🌟 About STR

STR is at the forefront of national security innovation, leveraging cutting-edge analytics, AI, and autonomous systems to tackle the most challenging defense problems. Our Collaborative Autonomy and Controls (CAC) Group focuses on multi-agent reconnaissance systems, utilizing machine learning, advanced algorithms, and software development best practices to drive mission success.

💼 Your Role

As a Software Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in leading the design, development, and implementation of advanced software systems. Your responsibilities include:

✅ Leading technical development across the full software lifecycle, from prototyping to deployment.
✅ Providing mentorship and technical leadership for a team of engineers.
✅ Owning software products, ensuring quality assurance and seamless system integration.
✅ Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance mission planning, autonomous reasoning, and system tracking.
✅ Conducting software design and code reviews within an Agile development framework.

This role is hybrid with flexibility to work remotely when on-site presence is not required.

🎯 What You Need to Succeed

🔹 U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance.
🔹 BS in Computer Science or a related technical field with 7+ years of experience.
🔹 Expertise in Java or C++ development.
🔹 Experience in designing, building, testing, debugging, and maintaining large-scale software systems.
🔹 Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization.
🔹 Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams (10-20 engineers) through Agile methodologies.
🔹 Deep knowledge of best practices such as code review, unit testing, test coverage, and static analysis.
🔹 Experience in system/software architecture design.
🔹 Comfortable engaging with internal leadership and external customers to align software development with strategic goals.

Technical Skills & Tools:
✔ Agile methodologies (JIRA, Sonarqube)
✔ Test-driven development principles
✔ Object-Oriented Programming best practices
✔ Ability to learn and adopt new languages, libraries, and technologies

💡 Bonus Points (Nice to Have)

💡 MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
💡 Experience in collaborative, distributed autonomy systems for unmanned vehicles.
💡 Background in motion planning, perception, localization, mapping, and control systems.
💡 Experience with embedded and physical device programming.
💡 Familiarity with:
🔹 Multi-agent coordination for UxVs
🔹 MAVLINK or other C2 protocols
🔹 ROS (Robot Operating System)
🔹 DevSecOps & CI/CD pipelines
🔹 Integration of complex software systems
🔹 Constraint optimization algorithms
🔹 Knowledge representation & ontologies
🔹 Python
💡 Active Security Clearance (highly preferred).

💎 Why You’ll Love Working at STR

🚀 Innovative Impact: Develop cutting-edge AI and autonomy solutions for national security.
🌍 Collaborative Culture: Work alongside experts in AI, cyber, radar, sonar, and electronic warfare.
📈 Career Growth: A learning-driven environment that fosters professional development.
💰 Competitive Compensation: Industry-leading salary & benefits.
🏆 Mission-Driven Work: Your contributions will make the world safer.

📩 Apply Now

Ready to lead the future of autonomous systems? Apply Today and be part of STR’s groundbreaking engineering team!

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