Description
Join us in improving and shaping the future of smart mobility with a group of intelligent, motivated, and dedicated individuals! Leidos operates the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL) , a US Department of Transportation (USDOT) onsite R&D lab located at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center . STOL's focus is on improving transportation system operations to achieve USDOT's safety, mobility, sustainability, and equity goals. STOL spearheads a variety of exciting R&D projects involving emerging technologies, including but not limited to infrastructure and vehicle connectivity and automation, everything-in-the-loop simulation, and AI/ML modeling. To promote these efforts, Leidos is looking for a mid-level C++ Software Engineer - Cooperative Driving Applications to join our team!
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead C++ development for components of various cooperative driving applications (CDA) software systems, ranging from intelligent transportation systems to robotic/autonomous vehicle platforms to everything-in-the-loop simulation.
- Participate in and help shape our open-source software process, triaging and addressing issues reported by external users and evaluating 3rd party code contributions.
- Identify, document, and formulate approaches to addressing areas of technical debt.
- Analyze and assess the team's existing CDA software systems to understand their architecture, and how they can be redesigned into more modular, scalable, and maintainable components.
- Contribute to internal best practices for software development and lead knowledge sharing to support adoption across development teams.
- Work with cross-functional internal teams to determine technical feasibility of projects, breakdown project goals into software development tasks, and assist with overall effort and timeline estimation of planned work.
- Lead the execution of planned technical work, including design work, addressing unplanned technical challenges, and being responsive to changes in customer needs.
- Directly interact with on-site customer representatives and external stakeholders to communicate across technical disciplines as needed throughout a project's life cycle.
Minimal Qualifications:
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance (which includes three years immediate residency in the US).
- Interest in working with emerging technologies and shaping the future of transportation.
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering with at least 4 years of professional experience in C++ software development, or a Master's degree with at least 2 years of professional experience in C++ software development.
- Experience using CMake for building C++ packages.
- Experience with Git.
- Experience with Docker (including docker-compose).
- Experience developing in an Agile framework using toolsets such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Proficiency in software quality techniques and practices (automated unit testing, test-driven design/development, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, static code analysis tools, etc.).
- Understanding of mathematical fundamentals, including geometry, linear algebra, probability, graph theory, set theory, and statistics.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining C++ software packages in a Linux environment.
- Experience with Linux build systems and package management systems.
- Software development experience with Java and/or Python.
- Experience with Kafka or similar message broker systems.
- Experience with Robot Operating System (ROS).
- Experience with user interface (UI) and/or front-end development.
- Familiarity with distributed computing and cloud computing concepts.
- Familiarity with one or more robotics concepts such as localization, path planning, perception, or sensor fusion.
- Familiarity with simulation environments such as SUMO or CARLA, or other simulators built in Unreal or Unity.
- Familiarity with existing CDA infrastructure standards and/or hardware such as those from SAE or IEEE.
- Experience in a fast-paced dynamic R&D environment.
- Experience as software engineering team lead.
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