Simulation Software Engineer – Cooperative Driving Applications

Join us in improving and shaping the future of the smart mobility with a group of intelligent, motivated, and dedicated individuals! Leidos operates the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL), a US Department of Transportation (USDOT) onsite R&D lab located at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center. STOL’s focus is on improving transportation system operations to achieve USDOT’s safety, mobility, sustainability and equity goals. STOL spearheads a variety of exciting R&D projects involving emerging technologies, including but not limited to infrastructure and vehicle connectivity and automation, everything-in-the loop simulation, wireless communication, and experimental data collection and analysis.  To promote these efforts, Leidos is looking for a Junior/Mid Simulation Software Engineer – Cooperative Driving Applications (CDA) to join our team!

Learn more about STOL here: STOL

Primary Duties:

• Assist in development of variety of applications and components in support of transportation research, including connected vehicles and human factors.
• Design, develop, and test new features and enhancements for existing simulation platforms, primarily in C++ in a Linux environment.
• Integration of new simulators into a co-simulation environment.
• Deployment of simulations in cloud environments for scalable compute.
• Resolution of bugs and anomalies reported by simulation users.
• Tuning of simulation parameters and configuration for specific applications.

Additional Duties May Include:

• Analyze and assess the team’s existing CDA software systems to comprehend their architecture, and how they can be redesigned into more modular, scalable, and maintainable components.
• Contribute to internal best practices for software development and lead knowledge sharing to support adoption across development teams.
• Work with cross-functional internal team to determine technical feasibility of projects, breakdown project goals into software development tasks, and assist with overall effort and timeline estimation of planned work.
• Team up for the execution of planned technical work, including design work, addressing unplanned technical challenges, and being responsive to changes in customer needs.
• Communicate across functions and convey findings accurately.
• Additional Simulation duties as assigned.

Systems of interest relate to the following:

• Open-source simulation technologies like CARLA, SUMO, NS-3
• Cloud computing architectures for cloud-based simulation
• Human-factors focused driving simulator technologies
• Integration of multiple simulators to form multi-resolution co-simulation platforms
• Construction of digital-twin simulation environments for real-world spaces.
• Intelligent Transportation Systems and Cooperative Driving Automation
• V2X communication hardware, software, and standards
• Vehicle automation and cooperation
• Data visualization and analysis
• Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR)

Minimal Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other science discipline (e.g., transportation engineering, electrical engineering, etc.) with 2+ years’ industry experience developing software or a Masters with less than 2 years of experience.
• Prior exposure with C++ and familiarity with scripting in Python or Bash in a Linux environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance (which includes three years immediate residency in the US).
• Interest in working with emerging technologies and shaping the future of transportation.
• Working background with a distributed computing middleware (e.g. ROS, DDS, TENA, Kafka, etc.)
• Prior involvemen with automated unit testing frameworks and best practices.
• Technical writing skills to develop software documentation and support material.
• Familiarity with peer review best practices for software changesets, both for submitting code changes as well as reviewing them.
• Communication and collaboration skills to work with the STOL team as well as our on-site customer.

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ industry experience developing software.
• Project technical leadership, including planning and estimation of technical tasks.
• Hands-on development experience wit