Lead Software Architect - RAPTOR Autonomy

SSCI is looking for a Lead Software Architect for projects in the areas of autonomy, active perception , and unmanned systems. This position requires U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for U.S. Dept. of Defense Security Clearance.

SSCI is a leading developer of advanced technologies for mission planning and autonomy for the Aerospace and Defense industries. Founded in 1990 and based in Woburn, MA, SSCI invents disruptive technologies, develops revolutionary solutions, and builds trusted products for our customers’ most challenging missions. SSCI focuses on the creation of AI/ML-enabled capabilities to command, control, communicate with, and manage composable collections of intelligent agents, smart sensors, and autonomous platforms across all domains.

*Eligibility for a DOD Security Clearance is needed*

Responsibilities

• Using a broad spectrum of tools and technologies, lead the design of critical system architectures in the area of autonomy for multi-domain aerospace distributed systems.
• Responsible for the high-level systems software architecture. The selected individual will lead and work alongside an integrated engineering team to:
  • Develop and implement high-level system software architectures, including requirements development.
  • Lead teams in the implementation and integration of system and software designs.
  • Develop system requirement specification for the overall system including verification plans.
  • Support system modeling, design analysis, operations analysis, and requirements decomposition in support of system design.
  • Review specifications, requirements and other engineering documents.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert and key contributor on proposals.
  • Effectively chooses the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products, e.g. nightly build processes.
  • Performs or leads the development of technical strategies and teaming strategies on multiple projects within SSCI.

Requirements

MS with 12-15 years experience or BSc with 15-20 years experience in Software Engineering and System Architecture

Required Skills/Experience

• 5-7 years of successfully leading and delivering unmanned vehicle autonomy software.
• Specific background and expertise in autonomy stack.
• Experience with systems and software engineering processes (software planning, design development tools, configuration management, test and QA methods, ISO9001, CMMI).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired Skills/Experience

• Experience with real-time small unmanned aerial system autonomy software highly desired
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with Distributed Data Infrastructure and Cloud Enterprise Software (SQLite, Cassandra, AWS)
• Experience in Human Systems Integration (HSI), Multi-Vehicle Tasking, and/or Mission Planning for Unmanned Systems,
• Experience with cyber-secure embedded systems
• Experience with mission payloads (integration, operations) for unmanned systems
• Experience with NVIDIA processors and CUDA highly desirable.