Date Posted:

2024-08-12

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HVA34: Sterling, VA 22640 Davis Dr , Sterling, VA, 20164-7104 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Senior Software Engineer – Simulation & Training (Onsite)

Summary:

This senior software engineering position is within the Missions Systems business unit in the Simulation and Training Solutions (STS) C4ISR portfolio. STS develops and builds simulators and training systems for both military and commercial customers. Devices range in complexity from desktop trainers to high fidelity weapon system trainers.

We are seeking a highly motivated, creative, and passionate senior software engineer to drive innovative solutions to our customers. In this position, you will work as an individual contributor on a scrum team to design, implement, integrate, and test system software features of moderate to high complexity. You will work with subject matter experts and other team stakeholders to execute the team’s features and objectives on one of our largest DoD programs. The ideal candidate has prior working experience working on mission-centric software on a cross functional agile software development team. This position requires an active US DoD secret security clearance. Most aspects of the job are done in a classified lab environment and requires daily onsite presence.

What you will do:

• Design, develop, implement, integrate and test real-time, multi-threaded software and associated user interfaces.

• Collaborate with systems engineers and architects to decompose system requirements from CONOPS into lower-level software requirements and translate those into working code.

• Work with program team to ensure the logical and systematic development of solutions based on customer requirements accounting for technical, schedule, and budget constraints.

• Work with the scrum team in developing detailed user stories to include descriptive acceptance criteria.

• Participate in daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint/increment planning events, and end of sprint retrospectives.

• Proactively raise risks and opportunities and communicate them to the Product Owner and/or Scrum Master.

• Analyze, debug, troubleshoot, and fix system trouble reports (STRs) and work with test team to ensure timely closure.

• Contribute to engineering documentation such as interface control documents, software development description documents, test procedures, etc.

• Perform bidding and proposal activities to support the acquisition of new business.

• Travel to customer locations for incremental software deliveries and mission test events (up to 20%).

• Actively mentor and coach junior engineers.

• Individual job duties may vary.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.

• Active and transferrable U.S. government issued secret security clearance or higher is required prior to start date. 

• U.S citizenship is required, as only U.S citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Skills You Must Have:

• High proficiency in C++ and object-oriented design and programming.

• Experience working in DevOps software engineering environments and with tools that support Agile Software Development such as the ALM suite (JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, Bamboo).

Preferred qualifications:

• Full stack developer with experience in design and development of complex, integrated software systems that interface with real-time aircraft hardware.

• Experience with C#, WPF, and XAML.

• Experience with software development in Linux and Windows Operating Systems.

• Experience refactoring large code base from older procedural languages to higher level programming languages.

• Experience developing software that interfaces with hardware and avionics components such as mission displays, mission computers, flight management computers, etc.

• Experience in software development and concurrency projects involving the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Experience working on a scrum team using the Scaled Agile Framework.

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging complex system of systems software.

• High attention to detail, quality, and commitment to excellence.

• High learning agility, able to quickly learn and apply new concepts and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

• Adept communicator: active listener, proactive, adapts message to different stakeholders within the program team in clear and concise manner.

• Affinity towards the Aerospace and Defense industry, particularly airborne simulation platforms

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

What We Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning

• Adoption Assistance         

• Autism Benefit

• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions

• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program

• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services

• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• And more! 

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The salary range for this role is 85,000 USD - 179,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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