Description
Leidos currently has an opening for a Lead Embedded Software Engineer to provide technical firmware engineering expertise and firmware/embedded project management and coordination supporting the design, development and integration of Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (UUV) programs that address existing and emerging maritime missions of national importance for a broad range of customers across multiple Department of Defense agencies. This position is located at our Lynnwood, WA office.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical firmware/embedded leadership on small teams from project inception to project delivery
• Coordinate with the project manager, customers, and other functional leads to develop schedules and budgets, allocate resources, and track and monitor progress
• Engage firmware/embedded engineers as a mentor for technical, communication, and executive skills on the team
• Analyze firmware requirements and decompose into derived functional firmware requirements for a team to execute
• Design embedded architectures for autonomous systems and vehicles
• Develop features for a software project based on derived firmware requirements and work with a team of engineers to estimate effort for these features
• Arbitrate challenging technical decisions with engineers by listening, understanding, and driving towards the best solution to meet the project requirements
• Work with software project leads to develop consistent processes and spearhead changes and innovation for our software and firmware development processes and methodologies
• Provide guidance and support through the testing and evaluation process to ensure delivery of a high-quality product

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s degree with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• Advanced language skills in C/C++ within Linux and embedded environments
• Expertise in developing embedded solutions and architecture on the STM32 family of microcontrollers
• Expertise working with I2C, SPI, UART, CAN Bus, and similar interfaces on embedded systems
• An eagerness to lead and mentor a group of senior and junior developers towards a successful product delivery
• Familiarity and basic understanding of Software Design Patterns
• Familiarity with MBSE Systems Modeling Language (SysML) tools such as Cameo or Magic Draw
• Experience with Agile-based methodologies using the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) or similar tools
• Ability to communicate and share ideas, concepts, designs, and technical plans with a team of engineers
• Constant integrity in working with our employees and customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Range of experience in languages such as C#, Java, Python, Rust, and others
• Experience with virtualized development and production environments (VMware, Docker, etc.)
• Experience with system autonomy software in C++ or other languages
• Experience with testing code across multiple projects
• Ability to identify and resolve code defects in new and legacy code
• Background with the design, development, integration, and test of autonomous or remotely operated undersea vehicle systems

• Provide technical firmware/embedded leadership on small teams from project inception to project delivery
• Coordinate with the project manager, customers, and other functional leads to develop schedules and budgets, allocate resources, and track and monitor progress
• Engage firmware/embedded engineers as a mentor for technical, communication, and executive skills on the team
• Analyze firmware requirements and decompose into derived functional firmware requirements for a team to execute
• Design embedded architectures for autonomous systems and vehicles
• Develop features for a software project based on derived firmware requirements and work with a team of engineers to estimate effort for these features
• Arbitrate challenging technical decisions with engineers by listening, understanding, and driving towards the best solution to meet the project requirements
• Work with software project leads to develop consistent processes and spearhead changes and innovation for our software and firmware development processes and methodologies
• Provide guidance and support through the testing and evaluation process to ensure delivery of a high-quality produc