Fire Control Systems Lead — Real-Time Mission Software

Stealth Mode; Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Singularity in Gardena, CA is seeking a Mission Systems Manager to lead the Fire Control System and related mission software. You will guide a small team while actively contributing to core development, architecture, and integration efforts.

Responsibilities include device and sensor integration, real-time software design, and secure, scalable deployments on Linux platforms. You will mentor engineers and drive the technical direction of a critical defense capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering with distributed, real-time, or mission-critical systems.
• Strong C++ and Linux development experience.
• Experience designing distributed, networked software architectures.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, messaging, and interfaces.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring ability.
• Willingness to remain hands-on while leading a small team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of Mission Systems engineers with technical direction, hiring, and performance management.
• Contribute to design, implementation, testing, and debugging of production mission software with at least 50% hands-on work.
• Own architecture, development, integration and delivery of the Fire Control System and mission software.
• Develop radar/sensor integration, track processing, target management, and mission execution software.
• Design reliable real-time, distributed software architectures connecting sensors, operators, and platforms.
• Create interfaces, protocols, and data exchange mechanisms; integrate with external C2 systems and networks.
• Ensure operation under degraded or disconnected networks; support Linux deployments and reproducible builds (Nix/NixOS).
• Incorporate security best practices and develop simulation/test environments; support end-to-end system integration.

Skills

C++

Linux

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Leadership

Real-time software

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

NixOS

Linux tooling

Job description

Singularity in Gardena, CA is seeking a Mission Systems Manager to lead the Fire Control System and related mission software. You will guide a small team while actively contributing to core development, architecture, and integration efforts.

Responsibilities include device and sensor integration, real-time software design, and secure, scalable deployments on Linux platforms. You will mentor engineers and drive the technical direction of a critical defense capability.