2103 Associate Software Engineer jobs in Ashburn,VA

Primary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or related STEM field with *5 *years of relevant professional experience – OR – Master's degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or related STEM field with *3 *years of relevant professional experience – OR – PhD in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or related STEM field

Requires an *active* U.S. Government *Top-Secret* [*TS*] security clearance and Sensitive Compartmented Information (*SCI*)[*TS/SCI*] *at time of application*, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval/access within a reasonable amount of time [US citizenship required]

Advanced programming proficiency with: C/C++, Python.

Advanced programming proficiency with Matlab.

Ability to debug hardware and software.

Ability to use software revision control tools such as Subversion and Git.

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or related STEM field with *8* years of relevant professional experience – OR – Master's degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or related STEM field with *6* years of relevant professional experience – OR – PhD in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering or related STEM field with *4* years of relevant professional experience.

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

*Active TS/SCI clearance with SAP*

System knowledge in one or more of the following domains: Spacecraft Command & Control, Mission Planning, Space Situational Awareness and Visualization

Familiarity with static code analysis tools such as: Coverity, SonarQube, and Fortify.

Hardware interfacing, integration and test and controls experience

Understanding of common embedded system tools, real-time operating systems and avionics integration and test practices

Ability to integrate Flight-Software using simulation models of sensors, actuators and space environments to demonstrate closed-loop spacecraft system performance, general integration and test of aerospace systems.

Understanding of Jenkins, Jira (Agile, Scrum and Kanban), Bitbucket and related DevSecOps tools.

Experience developing software in a Linux OS environment

Experience with National Instruments data acquisition cards.

Ability to read schematics, and work with components datasheets.

Experience with Digital, Analog, RS-422 synchronous serial and UART, MIL-STD-1553, SpaceWire electrical interfaces