Software Engineering Senior Supervisor

Date Posted:

2026-04-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-CA-SAN JOSE-826 ~ 200 Holger Way ~ BLDG 826, Ast

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance Type:

TS/SCI without Polygraph

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

Applied Signal Technology (AST) is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Supervisor who strives for excellence and has a passion to be part of a team that strengthens our nation and improves the security of our world.  AST provides trusted strategic and tactical SIGINT solutions that secure the interests of the U.S. and its partners. AST’s work in areas such as high-capacity broadband communications, signal processing and analysis, tactical SIGINT, and wireless communications continually challenge our extraordinary engineers to resolve problems and make the world a safer place. AST’s work environment is passionate, highly collaborative and provides engineers with the freedom to strengthen and expand their skills, explore new and creative ideas, and work closely with our nation’s finest service members all while embracing integrity, innovation, and work-life balance.

This is an ONSITE position at the San Jose, CA location.

To learn more about AST, please click the link below.

Applied Signal Technology: WHO WE ARE

The Section Manager reports to the Software Systems/System Development Department Manager and is responsible for first-line management of a group of 8-10 software engineers who have varying levels of experience and multi-domain expertise and support various contracts across all company business divisions.

The successful candidate will manage engineers who are involved with development of deliverable software/systems/products over the entire engineering development lifecycle.  Although the section staff will typically work on independent projects, the Section Manager will foster collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas and new technologies within the group.  He/she will also contribute directly to engineering development as a task leader, technical leader, or individual contributor.  The Section Manager position responsibilities will occupy ~15% of time performing first-line management of the section staff and ~85% of time directly performing technical development activities.

What You Will Do:

As a Section Manager, you will:

• Plan and track staff’s task assignments

• Support staff with career development planning

• Prepare and communicate staff performance evaluations

• Assist with strengthening staff core engineering skills and discipline, and developing staff domain knowledge and expertise

• Assist in planning for and addressing engineering staffing needs

• Assist and support recruiting and interviewing activities

• Assist with ensuring staff compliance with company policies/procedures

As a technical contributor, you will:

• Participate in the requirements, design, development and testing of software to include development of new work products or enhancement of existing applications and systems

• Design, code, test, integrate, and document software solutions

• Participate in internal review of software components and systems

• Collaborate with project managers and other professionals within Engineering

• Follow established development practices and processes to maintain the configuration management of software products

• Participate in the advancement of the software development environment and DevOps practices within Engineering

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of relevant prior experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing in modern programming languages (e.g. C++, Java) in a Linux environment

• Software/system/product development experience in one of these areas: telecommunications, data communications, wireless communications, communications protocols, networking protocols, and/or digital signal processing.

• Emotional intelligence skills (i.e. self-awar