Job Description

SG2 Recruiting seeks a Cleared Integration and Test Software Lead to support a Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) contract. The NCST is located at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, and is the leading laboratory for Navy space programs. NCST’s mission is to “preserve and enhance a strong space technology base and provide expert capabilities in the development and acquisition of space systems which support Naval missions.”

For the last 25 years, the NCST has developed, enhanced, and maintained a collection of software used for design, development, test, launch, and mission operations of DoD space assets. This software is constantly being enhanced to provide state-of-the-art solutions to space applications. The core suite of software components is used in all aspects of the spacecraft or component life-cycle.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Developing, maintaining, and enhancing complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.

• Providing specific input to the software components of a system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

• Designing, implementing, and integrating software applications or performing software engineering tasks.

• Utilizing software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment.

• Ensuring efficient delivery of software engineering capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes.

• Mitigating risks, controlling costs and schedule variance, and effectively managing large-scale, integrated software projects.

• Reviewing and testing software components for adherence to the design requirements and documenting test results.

• Designing, developing, testing, and deploying embedded GSE software.

• Modifying, enhancing, and creating device-specific interfaces for real-time data collection and GSE control by understanding the internals of the real-time operating systems (RTOS).

• Configuring the RTOS-based GSE, the C2 software-based test system, the application-specific interfaces, and the spacecraft hardware unit under test for performance, environmental, and acceptance testing.

• Designing, developing, and configuring management of automated procedures that are used during integration and testing to use proven and tested sequences during launch and mission operations.

• Modifying the software source code and automated procedures to replace the GSE interfaces and simulation practices with real-time operational data to create operational procedures.

What You Will Need (Requirements):

• Active Top Secret/ SCI Eligible

• Minimum B.Sc., Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics

• Extensive experience with spacecraft operations and testing.

• Extensive experience in directing teams of software engineers in the design and development of integration and test systems and procedures.

• Ability to commute daily to the Naval Research Lab location in Washington, DC