Software Engineer - Contractor

18 Feb 2025

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Overview

iDirect Government is a leading ground systems provider to the military satellite industry. We offer platforms connecting a variety of satellite constellations with an array of remote terminals. Terminals are installed on aircraft, maritime vessels, and other ground-based military and government assets. These terminals provide internet and voice capabilities to remote and austere locations. We are seeking for a team player with solid technical skills to work as a Contractor with our team of smart, creative, and dedicated engineering team-members. We value creative problem solving, logical thinking, enthusiasm, and the ability to learn quickly. Candidates must have a strong technical background and be capable of coming up to speed on new technologies quickly. Good communication skills, great problem-solving skills, and the ability to work both individually and collaboratively in a team environment are required. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with the smartest team and the very latest technologies, then this is the job for you! This is a cross-functional engineering position, developing software for our satellite products on Linux platforms. The language for most of the software development for this position is C.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and integrate iDirect software written in C from requirements to production and commercial deployment
  • Act as a member of an Agile scrum team
  • Assist with estimation of time and effort required to implement new requirements
  • Participate in code reviews and improve software quality
  • Interface and work with cross-functional teams to successfully implement feature dependencies
  • Effectively employ innovative problem-solving techniques
  • Integrate and validate new product designs

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Proven working experience in software engineering
  • Programming experience with C/C and object-oriented design
  • Experience developing and debugging software in a Linux environment
  • Familiarity with software configuration management, defect tracking tools, and peer review
  • Object and Component Oriented Designs
  • Transmission security and cryptographic techniques
  • Strong documentation and writing skills
  • Working knowledge of GCC, grep/awk/sed command line tools, bash scripting, GDB debugger, systemd suite

Additional experience in the following areas is a plus
  • Familiarity with developing multi-threaded software applications
  • Knowledge of communications and/or networking protocols, TCP/IP, UDP, IPv6, etc.
  • Experience with cross-functional (hardware/firmware/software) development and verification
  • Experience in shell scripting using Perl, Lua, or Python
  • Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Familiarity with Docker, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Conan, CMake, C11
  • Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Git, BitBucket, SharePoint, Jenkins and Artifactory is a plus

Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems, Mathematics, or other technical field.

Clearance
  • Active DoD clearance or ability to obtain a secret DoD clearance.
iDirect Government is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or protected veteran status.

  • ID: #49273983
  • State: Virginia Herndon 20171 Herndon USA
  • City: Herndon
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-18
  • Deadline: 2023-04-18
  • Category: Et cetera