Software Engineer

The Advanced Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE) team in the Software Enterprise Division (SED) is looking for dedicated, hard-working software engineers to work in the challenging area of pairing research and prototyping with software design, development, and engineering.

When the ACE team is not engaged directly in research and prototyping efforts, it is partnering with subject matter experts to assist them with their solutions.

ACE members can expect to work with new individuals across many projects, since ACE works directly with various DoD organizations and with teams all over ARA itself.

It is vitally important that ACE members can quickly become productive partners in new groups and can communicate effectively with a wide range of personalities.

The ACE team frequently works in new domains and areas of unfamiliarity.

Projects vary widely, including:


* Creating an automated, distributed infrastructure for submitting, testing, and scoring AI/ML models in public competitions.


* Adjudicating the intersection of kinetic projectiles across disparate terrain data sources faster than real-time.


* Writing custom protocols for Bluetooth communication with prototype IMUs.


* Representing radar jamming as a visual spectrum effect.


* Inferring network topologies from raw packet captures.

As a result, ACE members are always learning new concepts and technologies, adapting their knowledge to the growing demands for their ability to support anyone.

Rarely does the team do the same thing twice.

A job with SED’s ACE team means a hybrid (remote and office) work schedule within an agile team environment, working on one or two projects.

Given the diverse nature of our work, members can expect to leverage different languages, frameworks, technology stacks, and miscellaneous tooling.

Software Engineer Requirements:


* US Citizenship required


* The nature of work (i.e.

interactions with the intelligence community and DoD programs) requires eligibility to apply for and hold a US security clearance; selected applicants will undergo a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements at the time of employment


* Relocation to an available hybrid office located in: Orlando, FL (preferred); and Raleigh North Carolina


* BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field along with at least 3 years of relevant work experience OR MS degree with 0-2 years of relevant work experience OR PhD


* Ability to quickly understand existing code and enhance and build on an existing architecture


* Strong math skills and a solid understanding of algorithm design and optimization


* Demonstrated ability to work both autonomously as well as with large and small teams of programmers


* Experience inferring, elucidating, and extracting requirements from vague direction


* Practice with cross-domain application of knowledge


* Docker fluency


* Python familiarity


* Linux opera...