Senior Software Engineer – DoD M&S for Warfighter Tech

Our Company; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid leave

Retirement options

Disability and life insurance

Flexible work schedules

Educational assistance

Job summary

Cepeda is seeking a Senior Software Developer for the STARS products branch to drive the technical evolution of mission-critical warfighter training and planning tools.

You will integrate high-fidelity intelligence data, physics-based models, and tactical hardware health into a streamlined operational tool, collaborating with radar systems analysts and software engineers to deliver scalable software for defense environments.

Qualifications

• Strong programming experience in C++, Java, Python.
• Experience with XML data structures and parsing utilities.
• Familiarity with geospatial data processing and coordinate geometry (DTED).
• 9+ years of software development in the DoD Modeling & Simulation environment.

Responsibilities

• Support design of FBM Planner suite including core UI and RRT.
• Design interoperability with Threat Generation External and TMSS frameworks.
• Lead implementation of heuristic algorithms for search plan optimization and related models.
• Ensure robust data ingestion/export pipelines for tactical data and binary search plan files.
• Support adoption of DoD DevSecOps practices and cybersecurity standards.
• Collaborate with engineers and radar analysts to translate complex models into scalable software.

Skills

C++

Java

Python

XML

Geospatial data processing

DV/DTED integration

Job description

Cepeda is seeking a Senior Software Developer for the STARS products branch to drive the technical evolution of mission-critical warfighter training and planning tools.

You will integrate high-fidelity intelligence data, physics-based models, and tactical hardware health into a streamlined operational tool, collaborating with radar systems analysts and software engineers to deliver scalable software for defense environments.