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Senior Scene Generation Engineer

AeroVironment
Arsenal Alabama, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2026

About the role

Worker Type

Regular


Job Description

 

The Engineering Services Division is searching for a Scene Generation Engineer towards the design, development, and validation of high-fidelity physics-based 3D radiometric synthetic environments across a full range of environments encompassing tactical, strategic and surveillance scenarios.  Provide a working understanding in multiple disciplines, including radiometry of targets and background scene objects, graphical programming, advanced software and architecture development, and real-time hardware-in-the-loop system integration.  The ideal candidate has experience in software development in a distributed team environment, is proficient using Linux, has graphical programming experience especially with regards to physics-based rendering, and understands and has experience with the principles of radiometry and reflection of electromagnetic energy.

  • Design, develop, and validate high-fidelity physics-based 3D radiometric synthetic models for use in scene generation software across a full range of environments encompassing tactical, strategic and surveillance scenarios. 

  • Provide integration support of our scene generation software into real-time hardware-in-the-loop laboratories, providing expertise to resolve software and integration issues and ensure scene generation quality.

  • Develop software tools to advance and support model development, integration, analysis and visualization, and enhanced user interfaces.

  • Review software developed by peers and provide technical feedback and guidance.

  • Mentor junior software engineers and promote software engineering best practices.

  • Identify opportunities to improve software quality, development efficiency, and system performance.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

  • Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible software engineering experience.

  • Strong experience in object-oriented software design and development.

  • Experience with software architecture and design patterns.

  • Proficiency in one or more of the following: C++, OpenGL, CUDA, Python

  • Experience developing applications in Linux environments.

  • Experience with Git or other version control systems.

  • Experience with software testing methodologies and debugging tools.

  • Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

  • Follows standard practices and procedures when analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained. Completes assigned tasks within schedule and budget.

  • Works comfortably in a team environment by sharing ideas and experiences with others, solicits feedback and asks relevant questions.

  • Able to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, where small teams share a broad variety of duties.

  • Ability to obtain or maintain required security clearances

Preferred Qualifications

  • Existing Secret security clearance

  • Graphical programming experience especially with regards to physics-based rendering

  • Understands and has experience with the principles of radiometry and reflection of electromagnetic energy

  • Experience working within DoD development environments.

ITAR Requirement:

This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants will be asked to provide specific documentation to verify U.S. person status under the ITAR and the EAR.  A “U.S. person” according to their definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee, or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

Benefits:  AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.  For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit:  http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.

We also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.

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