What We Do

Are you a senior engineer who enjoys a challenge? Are you excited about working for an FFRDC focused on areas critical to national security? Do you want to join a collaborative team that helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, AI Engineering, and software security? If so, we want you for our team, where you’ll be part of an exciting and impactful culture of collaboration that delivers timely and high-quality results.

The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Our core purpose is to help organizations improve software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect free, within budget and on time, every time.

Position Summary

This position within the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will be physically located at Eglin AFB, to support the Advanced Deterrence group within the Enabling Mission Capability at Scale technical directorate. This group has expertise in the areas of software architecture, development, and engineering, including the ability to evaluate source code and hardware description language using both static, dynamic, and embedded tool analysis for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agency customers. This position will support the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) mission by working with these government programs to understand their challenges, identifying actionable solutions, and guiding programs to operationalize the most effective techniques and practices.

If you are a senior engineer passionate about improving the ability to deliver high quality, high-demand systems, and you are committed to researching new ideas to bring innovation to government, then this is the position for you.

Key activities include:

• Provide embedded software engineering support at our customer location in Eglin AFB, FL.
• Required to work with government program offices to identify strengths and weaknesses within the acquisition program and their contractor base and build solutions to address the weaknesses and recognize and support the strengths
• Understand customer software engineering challenges in continuous software development, integration or deployment technologies and identifying tailored or integrated solutions
• Analyze use of cyber security approaches, methodologies, tools, and techniques to prevent risks and issues, and mitigate those that emerge.
• Analyze FPGA hardware and software interface specifications described via VHDL or Verilog to ensure it meets system requirements.
• Analyze software test and evaluation techniques and methodologies.
• Analyze static, dynamic and complexity software tool outputs to identify areas of software weakness where additional design / refactoring may be required.
• Analyze software contractor’s task development, activities, deliverables, risks, issues, and recommend mitigation strategies and techniques as appropriate.
• Creating, applying and codifying new approaches to address challenges and advance software engineering.

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.
• Willingness to travel to various locations to support the SEI’s overall mission. This includes within the SEI and CMU community, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings on occasion. Moderate (25%) travel outside of your home location.
• At least 75% of your weekly effort will be onsite at either SEI or customer facility.
• You will be subject to a background investigation and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance.
• Deep, detailed knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, including requirements development and management, software architecture and design techniques, software configuration management, software testing and verification, software assurance coding, and software metrics.
• Proficiency in software development languages e.g., C, C++, Ada and/or firmware development languages e.g., VHDL, Verilog.
• Experience with developing or analyzing embedded software built using modern Real Time Operating Systems like VxWorks.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to present to principal partners internal and external to the organization.
• Demonstrated team related skills with the ability to lead and participate in multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge in machine learning and artificial intelligence methods and applications is a plus.

Our benefits philosophy encompasses three driving priorities: choice, control, and well-being. Through Carnegie Mellon University, SEI offers a wide range of competitive employee benefits, including comprehensive health insurance, tuition benefits, generous time off, and a robust retirement savings policy to name a few.

• Join a world-class organization that has significant impact on software in government.
• Work with cutting edge technologies and experts to solve tough problems for the government and the nation.
• Publish your research, attend or present at prestigious events, and enjoy annual professional development opportunities.
• Get an 8% monthly contribution for your retirement plan without having to contribute to it yourself.
• Get tuition benefits to attend classes at Carnegie Mellon University for you and your dependent children.
• Enjoy paid parental and military leave.
• Qualify for relocation assistance and so much more.