Senior Principal Software Engineer

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 10+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 8 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.

Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES:

Shadow Labs has an immediate opening for an Algorithm Engineer to assist with development, R&D, and rapid prototyping programs for autonomous vehicles. This position involves a combination of core algorithm research and support of full stack development from device firmware up to high level automation software design and implementation.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:

• Develop and implement a wide range of algorithmic solutions to optimize performance of distributed, multi-agent autonomous systems,
• Understand, validate, implement, and evaluate mathematically sophisticated optimization algorithms,
• Design and implement API first software to interface with various robotics platforms i.e. ROS, Ardupilot, etc.

• Work with a highly matured CI\CD pipeline that includes multiple simulation environments and geographically disperse hardware in the loop.
• Implement cloud native, decentralized applications for use in IoT applications over disadvantaged networks.
• Follow and maintain fluent knowledge of commercial technology trends and champion new ideas, products, and process improvements
• Must be comfortable with a fast paced, agile environment, and be willing to change focus rapidly as objectives change.
• Must be comfortable working in teams, paired programming, with high degrees of autonomy and the associated accountability.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong working knowledge and demonstrated application of building and working with containers.
• Strong working knowledge and demonstrated application of DevOps and working within a CI/CD environment
• Strong working knowledge and demonstrated participation in an agile development environment for at least 2 years.
• Working knowledge and application of modern cloud native design principles: Pets and cattle, strangle pattern, service mesh, pub sub, microservices, distributed and federated control models.
• Working knowledge and application of IoT systems and communication patterns.
• Working knowledge of basic networking: routing, switching, network overlays.
• Working Knowledge of cloud environments: AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
• Basic knowledge of operating system design and comfortable with multiple Linux distros
• Basic knowledge of ML/AI, data analytics, data science, and data mining.
• Basic knowledge of cyber security best practice in application development and system design
• Basic knowledge of UX/HCD principles.
• Basic knowledge of radio, satellite, and other tactical networks.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE (seeking applicants with vertical subset):

• Languages: Java, C++, Python, Rust, Golang, Bash, PowerShell
• Strong Background: control theory, machine learning, optimization, information theory
• Experience with containers and orchestration like Docker, Kubernetes, Open shift, Podman, etc.
• Operating systems: Linux (Centos/RHEL, Alpine, Ubuntu) Windows (Server and Desktop)
• DevOps tools: Gitlab, Nexus, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, Eggplant, Anchor, etc.
• Agile tools: Jira, Confluence, etc.
• ML pipeline tools: TensorFlow, Jupyter, Kubeflow, etc. is a plus
• Web dev frameworks: React, Angular, Vue, Ember, WebAssembly, Node.js, etc. is a plus

LOCATION REQUIREMENTS

Shadow Labs members work when and where they are the most comfortable and most productive. All positions are designed to be remote, or as remote as possible, understanding that things like work classification or collaboration needs of teams/customers will require infrequent, but necessary, travel, trips into an office, temporary shifts in working hours and prioritizing the time to do so.

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans