Senior R&D Software Architect: Real-Time Counter-UAS

Sandia National Laboratories; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 118,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, invites a senior software engineer or software architect to design and build complex, production-grade systems for mission-critical national security applications. You will provide hands-on technical leadership while contributing to implementation across edge, on-prem, and backend environments.

Applicants should have multiple years of software engineering experience, strong architectural skills, and expertise with real-time, distributed systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline with 5+ years of related experience.
• Ability to obtain a DOE Q security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design overall software and system architectures for distributed, real-time operational systems.
• Serve as a hands-on technical lead guiding architecture reviews, interface definition, implementation decisions, and technical tradeoffs.
• Develop production-quality software for heterogeneous edge and backend compute environments.
• Build fault-tolerant capabilities for degraded or disconnected communications.
• Deploy, monitor, update software and models in fielded environments.

Skills

C++

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GStreamer

FFmpeg

RTSP

TensorRT

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, invites a senior software engineer or software architect to design and build complex, production-grade systems for mission-critical national security applications. You will provide hands-on technical leadership while contributing to implementation across edge, on-prem, and backend environments.

Applicants should have multiple years of software engineering experience, strong architectural skills, and expertise with real-time, distributed systems