Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.
Home View All Jobs (2,203,103)

Job Information

Leidos Navigation Software Engineer in Huntsville, Alabama

Description

Unleash Your Potential!

The Guidance, Navigation, Control, and Autonomy Branch of the Leidos Innovations Center provides cutting-edge navigation for customers who can’t rely on GPS alone, and we need your help in the Rocket City (Huntsville, AL).

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

This position offers both analytic and hands-on tasks, including development, simulation, analysis, and field testing of navigation algorithms. We perform research, development, and advanced prototyping for DARPA, NASA, Air Force Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, and Army Combat Capabilities Development Command engineering centers. These customers need to get our advanced technology into the field!

Your greatest work is ahead!

You’ll work with other engineers in small teams using spiral or agile development to meet aggressive schedules aimed at near-term field demonstrations. Are you excited about making advanced technologies work in the real world? Then we want you on our team! For more information about the work we do, please visit: https://www.leidos.com/products/assured-positioning-navigation-and-timing

Please note: This position can support remote teleworking however preference will be given to candidates who are local to Huntsville, AL area to attend occasional onsite meetings as needed.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Deploy novel navigation algorithms for optimal estimation and signal processing on various computing architectures for real-time fielded execution. Emphasis on alternative navigation systems including gravity and geomagnetic correlation aiding.

  • Integrate sensors and computing platforms over various electrical interfaces (e.g. RS232, RS422, SPI, I2C, TCP/IP, etc)

  • Enhance navigation software frameworks with new capabilities by supporting design, coding, and peer reviews for new software modules

  • Perform code profiling and software optimization to ensure real-time execution including use of multi-threading architectures and hardware acceleration (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.)

  • Work within a team of 3-5 engineers to test algorithms on demonstration hardware.

  • Travel with the team to demonstrate systems in real-world conditions; typically lasts 1-2 weeks and occurs 3-4 times a year.

  • Present techniques, solutions, and results to the team and to customers.

Basic Qualification:

  • Bachelor’s degree in advanced technical field (electrical engineering, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent) and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 2+ years of prior relevant experience.

  • Experience programming real-time navigation software in C/C++ with additional experience in Python or MATLAB

  • Linux operating system expertise

  • Experience interfacing with navigation sensors over various interface protocols (serial, Ethernet, SPI, etc.) including time synchronization of all measurements

  • Experience with building and deploying software in container environments such as Docker

  • Experience developing navigation simulation environments including methods to accelerate execution for faster-than-real-time operations

  • Must be a US Citizen

  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance after hiring

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s or PhD Degree in one of the majors listed above.

  • Experience interfacing to sensors such as inertial sensors, GPS, magnetometers, altimeters, cameras, etc.

  • Experience deploying navigation algorithms to real-time applications.

  • Experience with Linux, C++, and/or Python.

  • Experience with version control tools, especially Git and Gitlab.

  • Experience with autonomous system development through robotics competitions.

  • Existing US security clearance (Secret or above).

  • Local to Huntsville, AL

LInC

Original Posting Date:

2024-10-01

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $81,250.00 - $146,875.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

#Remote

REQNUMBER: R-00145078-OTHLOC-PL-2D1270

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. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.

DirectEmployers