Riverdale, Maryland
Software Engineer II Job Opening in Riverdale, Maryland - Altair ProductDesign is a global, multi-disciplinary product development consultancy of more than 700 designers, engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Altair Engineering, Inc. (), this cross-functional organization is best known for its leadership in combining human and machine creativity to fuel innovation, automate processes, and develop new methods. Altair ProductDesign firmly advocates a user-centered, team-based design approach, and utilizes proprietary simulation and optimization technologies to help clients bring innovative, profitable products to market faster.
Seeking Software Engineers (multiple positions) to join the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program and expand our distinguished team to develop a state-of-the-art ground station for the next generation of low earth orbiting environmental satellites
The development of this national asset will provide global coverage, monitor environmental conditions, collect, disseminate and process data about the Earth's weather, atmosphere, oceans, land, and near-space environment
The Command, Control, and Communications Segment (C3S) software provides a highly automated and integrated suite of nine subsystems at the new NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF), including Orbit Operations, Mission Management, Command and Control, and Enterprise Management
The JPSS program is looking for a qualified senior software engineer to join the JPSS Software team as a C3S SW engineer for the C3S Integrated Product Team (IPT)
Typical responsibilities include supporting the design, coding, test, and integration of software
The qualified candidate will be involved with all phases of the software development life cycle including SW requirements analysis, use case support, SW architecture analysis, detailed design, software builds, generating test plans, ensuring code meets requirements through thorough unit testing, updating technical documents, software integration support, problem detection, and resolving discrepancy reports
The qualified candidate will also be responsible for supporting software validation and verification, qualification, configuration control and documentation at the component level
Additionally, the qualified candidate will be responsible for quickly understanding assignments and carrying them out with moderate supervision
Verbal and written communication skills and problem solving skills will enable the qualified candidate to successfully support Peer Reviews at all phases of the development cycle to ensure successful integration with other software components
Key responsibilities for the qualified candidate include:
Object-oriented Java programming (including Java Swing)
Ability to design, develop, and maintain new software functionality
Ability to work with previously written code and make modifications as necessary
Ability to work closely with other disciplines (systems and test engineers) to troubleshoot and fix problems
Enthusiastic and energetic performer able to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and sometimes pressured environment
Team player incorporating a team based success philosophy
Contribute to the completion of program and project milestones under the specific guidance of his/her immediate supervisor
Ability to follow established SW processes and procedures, development, documentation and of operations concepts, requirements (system, element, segment level), external and internal interfaces, and other software engineering work products/artifacts
Requirements:
United States Citizenship required due to government contract work
Minimum 1+ year working experience in object-oriented software design and development using Java
Software and system-level debugging experience including the ability to identify problems in established code and make modifications as necessary
Experience with software execution throughout the entire software life cycle (preliminary design through maintenance phases)
Desired Skills:
Minimum of 2 years experience working with Microsoft Windows OS based development
Minimum of 2 years experience with Java
Experience with code analysis tools such as JUnit, FindBugs and Klocwork
Experience with XML
Experience with Perl
Experience with Python
Experience with C++
Experience with UML design modeling in modeling tools such as Rational Rose or Rhapsody
Experience and knowledge related to Satellite Ground Systems and Ground System Operations
Experience and knowledge related to software discipline process development and deployment
Experience with customer interaction and end-user engagement
Experience integrating software (modules, components, subsystems)
Experience preparing and presenting status information and technical material
Required Education (including Major):
Bachelor of Science, BS in a Math, Science or Engineering related field
Job Type: Full-time
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
C++: 1 year
C#: 1 year
Java: 2 years
Software Development: 1 year
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