Technical Lead - MDA - Huntsville, AL

This position is based in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SEI helps to advance software engineering principles and practices, and serves as a national resource in software engineering and computer security. The SEI works closely with academia, defense and government organizations, and industry to continually improve software-intensive systems. Our core purpose is to help organizations improve software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire high quality software, on budget and on time.

Position Summary:

SEI is seeking a technical leader to provide strategic customer partnership with the Missile Defense Program (MDA). Responsibilities may include, but not limited to, assist customers with efforts related to software development and cybersecurity from a cost, schedule and performance perspective; integrate with the customer contractor software development team to provide on-the-spot technical advice; help to address known issues and communicate progress; assess the credibility of software development plans for future performance; assist customers in the proper usage of tools, techniques, and procedures to solve some of the most difficult problems in software engineering and cybersecurity.

Duties:

• Provide technical leadership in support of MDA at our customer location in Huntsville, AL.
• Represent the SEI as the primary customer POC for efforts in the Huntsville area; this includes related business development activities, with portfolio management in collaboration with SEI Program Development and Transition team.
• Analyze software architecture in terms of functional and non-functional quality attributes, understand how to apply disciplined architecture methods and techniques for trade-off analysis toward optimized solutions.
• Analyze use and application of modern software development techniques e.g., DevSecOps tailored to customer domain environments to effectively and efficiently develop software that meet objective expectations.
• Analyze use of cyber security approaches, methodologies, tools, and techniques to prevent risks and issues, and mitigate those that emerge.
• Analyze software test and evaluation techniques and methodologies.

Examples may include: static, dynamic and complexity analysis software tools to identify areas of software weakness where additional design / refactoring may be required.

• Analyze software contractor’ task development, activities, deliverables, risks, issues, and recommend mitigation strategies and techniques as appropriate

Requirements, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• BS with 10 years’ experience, MS with 8 years’ experience or PhD with 5 years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, with professional experience as a software developer or engineer, verification engineer in a collaborative team environment.
• Flexible to travel to other SEI offices, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings on occasion. Moderate (25%) travel outside of your home location.
• You will be subject to a background investigation and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
• Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work for CMU in the United States. CMU will not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this opportunity.
• At least 75% of your weekly effort will be onsite in either an SEI or customer facility
• Understanding of the DoD Systems Engineering lifecycle
• Proficiency in software development languages e.g., C, C++
• Experience with developing or analyzing embedded software built using modern Real Time Operating Systems like VxWorks.
• Experience with embedded software, performance tests and interpreting the results

Location

Remote

Job Function

Software/Applications Development/Engineering

Position Type

Staff – Regular

Full Time/Part time

Full time

Pay Basis

Salary

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