EW Software Architect & Lead Engineer

SPEC (Systems & Processes Engineering Corp); Austin (TX); Presencial; USD 130.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

SPEC (Systems & Processes Engineering Corp) in Austin, TX, seeks an Electronic Warfare (EW) Software Architect/Lead Engineer to lead software architecture, prototype development, and technical demonstrations for EW capabilities.

This hands-on leader translates mission needs into modular software designs, guides integration across hardware and software interfaces, and builds demonstrations communicating capability, performance, and maturity to customers and stakeholders.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE or related field.
• 7-10 years of software engineering experience with architecture/leadership.
• Experience taking software from concept through prototype, integration, and stakeholder demonstration.
• Strong programming proficiency in C++, Python, or other languages relevant to the program.
• Experience designing modular software systems, defining interfaces, and integrating complex components.
• Experience with real-time or near-real-time applications, distributed systems, or hardware-integrated software.
• Proficiency with version control, automated testing, continuous integration, and software debugging.
• Ability to communicate architectural decisions, technical risks, and performance tradeoffs clearly.
• Experience leading technical demonstrations, design reviews, or customer-facing engineering presentations.
• Ability to meet government clearance and program-access requirements.

Responsabilidades

• Define software architectures for EW applications, signal-processing workflows, control interfaces, and mission-system integration.
• Translate customer needs and operational use cases into software requirements, interface definitions, and achievable development increments.
• Establish modular components, clear interfaces, and architectural patterns that support reuse, extensibility, and integration.
• Evaluate design tradeoffs involving processing latency, throughput, scalability, deployment constraints, and maintainability.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, document technical decisions, and mentor software engineers.
• Coordinate with systems, RF, signal-processing, hardware, and test teams to resolve cross-disciplinary integration challenges.
• Develop proof-of-concept applications and software prototypes to demonstrate emerging EW capabilities.
• Remain hands-on with implementation, code reviews, debugging, and integration.
• Integrate algorithms, RF equipment, simulation tools, data sources, and user interfaces into cohesive demonstration environments.
• Define APIs, data models, messaging approaches, and hardware abstraction interfaces.
• Develop simulation, playback, and hardware-in-the-loop capabilities to support repeatable demonstrations.
• Guide the transition of successful prototypes into maintainable, production-oriented software.
• Own demonstration planning, including use cases, scenarios, success criteria, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into clear, mission-relevant demonstrations for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Build demonstration scripts, visualizations, dashboards, and supporting technical presentations.
• Lead rehearsals, assess readiness, establish fallback approaches, and troubleshoot issues during execution.
• Present architecture, system behavior, performance results, and design tradeoffs to customers and program stakeholders.
• Clearly distinguish demonstrated functionality from simulated, planned, or prototype capabilities.
• Capture stakeholder feedback and translate it into architectural improvements and development priorities.
• Define verification approaches that connect demonstration outcomes to system requirements and performance objectives.
• Establish automated checks, integration tests, and repeatable software builds for demonstration baselines.
• Analyze logs and performance data to identify bottlenecks, integration issues, and capability gaps.
• Maintain configuration control of software, datasets, interfaces, and demonstration environments.
• Document results, limitations, technical risks, and recommended next steps.

Conocimientos

Software architecture

C++

Python

Technical leadership

Communication

Version control

CI/CD

Debugging

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE or related field

Herramientas

Linux

Embedded software

Descripción del empleo

SPEC (Systems & Processes Engineering Corp) in Austin, TX, seeks an Electronic Warfare (EW) Software Architect/Lead Engineer to lead software architecture, prototype development, and technical demonstrations for EW capabilities.

This hands-on leader translates mission needs into modular software designs, guides integration across hardware and software interfaces, and builds demonstrations communicating capability, performance, and maturity to customers and stakeholders.