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POSITION SPECIFICS​

The Systems Engineering & Rapid Prototyping Division within the Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainment Office (MMSO) of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University is searching for a talented, experienced, and highly motivated Software Engineer. You will assist ARL in providing customers with state of the art user experiences in web-based and desktop applications to support data visualization and engineering decision support systems, as well as algorithm development, that provides and analyzes the data for these dashboards. You will also collaborate with our data analytics faculty and staff engineers and software teams to design and improve custom applications and tools. The software developed typically culminates in operational concept demonstrations, followed by transitioning products to DoD program managers and industrial contractors to deploy and implement.

ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

You will:

• Develop front-end and back-end web services including all aspects of server, client, and web components

• Develop unique algorithmic and implementation solutions to a wide array of sponsor requirements

• Work with users to analyze their requirements; evaluate new tools and technologies to enhance performance

• Collaborate with other staff, students, and sponsors to solve challenging problems

• Work with DoD sponsors to gather requirements and implementation details

• Execute tasking within an Agile development process

• Keep current with relevant emerging technologies and trends by attending conferences and workshops relevant to department and project goal

Additional duties of a higher level will include: 

• Integrate more complex elements and technological advances into work assignments

• Develop concepts and methods to use in the design of systems

• Lead portions of large tasks or projects

Required skills/experience areas include:

• Software debugging and issue resolution using a variety of development languages, particularly Java and Python

• Mathematics and Statistics

• Previous success with collaborations in a diverse, multi-d