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About the Role
Leidos’ Undersea Systems Division is seeking a Software Engineer to drive innovation in underwater vehicle systems, maritime sensors, subsea telemetry, and ISR solutions that support critical defense and national security missions at Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC PAC). This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced R&D environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and deliver uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) based on system requirements.
- Develop and refine user interface and control of various sensors integrated onboard UUVs.
- Develop and optimize UUV behaviors to accomplish assigned tasks while maximizing opportunities for sensor data collection.
- Optimize existing code (C/C++/C#, Java and Python).
- Develop platform-independent data processing tools.
- Produce SW performance reports based on test & evaluation requirements.
- Create engineering & training documentation for technological deliveries.
- Architect and implement secure CI/CD pipelines utilizing modern containerization and DevOps principles, integrating automated testing and vulnerability scanning.
- Conduct testing onboard small boats and ships on the ocean, launching and recovering systems at sea, and performing post-test analysis of data.
- Provide results from post-test data analysis into official reports or briefing material.
- Develop expertise on UUV platform functionality and operations, and new technologies.
- Operate the system at-sea during test and evaluation.
- Travel occasionally in support of testing, training and/or operations in other locations both in the U.S. and abroad.
- Spend multiple days at-sea onboard ships.
Requirements
- Maintain a Secret Clearance to start.
- U.S. Citizen with an active SECRET security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Process-oriented and attention to detail.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Experience working with and managing small groups.
- Must be flexible and responsive to customer needs.
- Requires frequent movement around piers, docks, and facility spaces.
- Required to transport or lift objects weighing up to 50 pounds across the facility.
- Requires constant use of hands/fingers to operate machinery, tools, or computer equipment.
- Requires ability to move about the warehouse, stoop, kneel, or reach for extended periods.
- Ability to climb ladders up to 20 feet.
- Able and willing to work aboard marine vessels of various sizes, sometimes overnight.
- Requires work in various temperatures and inclement weather.
- Experience working independently or in teams to develop solutions, deliver products, and test and evaluate performance.
- Experience and skill analyzing experiment data to determine results as feedback into the development cycle.
- Ability to identify a solution to a presented problem and map it to a schedule.
Skills
- C/C++, Python & Java language programming fluency
- Familiarity with versioning control and CI/CD workflows
- Strong technical writing skills to provide input to or create technical reports and briefing material.
- Experience with uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) operations
- Experience with sensor integration
- Experience with mission constructs
- Experience with command and control
- Experience with at-sea test and evaluation (T&E)
- Experience operating onboard small craft and large ships at sea
Location
- San Diego, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor of Science or Master of Science (preferred) in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
About the Company
- Leidos’ Undersea Systems Division is a recognized leader in C4ISR technologies, delivering innovative, mission-critical solutions across sensor networks, unmanned systems, and tactical platforms.
- We’re known for achieving “industry firsts” in the most challenging maritime domains.
- At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it.
- We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.