Principal or Senior Principal Software Engineer - Navigation

Job Title: Principal or Senior Principal Software Engineer - Navigation
Location: Woodland Hills, CA
Duration: 12 Months and possible extension Contract
Pay Range: $100 - $130/hr W2 without benefits
 
JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal or Senior Principal Software Engineer - Navigation based out of Woodland Hills, CA. As a Software Engineer you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.  Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
 
What You’ll get to Do:
In this position you will be developing, testing, and debugging software for our cutting-edge Navigation systems. As a member of our world class software development team, you will have opportunities to improve and expand your capabilities in software design and code development. You will also have opportunities to perform software and system integration on state of the art hardware, learn new software development techniques such as Model Based Engineering (MBE), and work in an agile and collaborative development environment.
 
As a successful candidate, you will collaborate with peers across our organization and will have clearly demonstrated the strong leadership skills needed to join our top performing team. You will have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with our internal and external customers. You will also have demonstrated a commitment to ethics and integrity, and the capability to innovate while challenging our traditional ways of doing business. You will make us even better!
 
Basic Qualifications for Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelors degree in STEM with 5 years of hands on Software Development experience; 3 years of experience with Masters in STEM; 1 year with a PhD in STEM
• Experience developing software in MATLAB/Simulink
• Experience with programming (C and Python)
• Experience using software management and workflow automation tools such as ClearCase, Git, ClearQuest, or Jira
• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
• Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems.
• Experience with Navigation Systems and INS/GPS Kalman filter design and requirements definition
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative development environment
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance is required
• Required to work on site full-time

• Bachelors degree in STEM with 8 years of hands on Software Development experience; 6 years of experience with Masters in STEM; 4 Years with a PhD in STEM
• Experience developing software in MATLAB/Simulink
• Experience with programming (C and Python)
• Experience using software management and workflow automation tools such as ClearCase, Git, ClearQuest, or Jira
• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
• Experience using Simulink to model dynamic systems.
• Experience with Navigation Systems and INS/GPS Kalman filter design and requirements definition
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative development environment
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance is required
• Required to work on site full-time

• Current/Active U.S. Government Secret clearance
• Experience in the development and performance of software tests
• Experience using DOORS for software requirements management
• Expertise in Sensor Fusion for Navigation Systems using IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), GPS, barometers, and other sensors.
• Expertise in INS (Inertial Navigation System) mechanizations.
• Expertise in Embedded INS/GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation systems.
• Demonstrated capability to translate formal software requirements into software designs
• Demonstrated capability to define software requirements for an INS/GPS system
• Familiarity with/Experience in INS/GPS Kalman filter design and requirements definition
• Experience developing, verifying, certifying and releasing mission and safety-critical software systems that comply with RTCA DO-178B/ C or similar guidelines.
• Demonstrated use of MATLAB for simulation and INS/GPS system performance evaluation
• Hands-on experience with one or more communication protocols such as MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 or RS-422
• Experience with code analysis tools such as Polyspace and software test tools such as LDRA and VectorCast