Astrion is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to support the Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management Division at Hanscom AFB. In this role, you will directly contribute to delivering an integrated Department of the Air Force Battle Network to provide resilient decision advantage for the USAF, USSF, Joint, and Coalition Force.
What You'll Do
- Assess feasibility through analysis, problem definition, and solution evaluation.
- Document and demonstrate solutions using diagrams, code, and documentation.
- Improve operations by analyzing systems and recommending procedural changes.
- Acquire and license software by coordinating with vendors and testing products.
- Analyze and summarize development and service issues to inform stakeholders.
- Support mission goals by completing engineering tasks as required.
- Perform SQA to ensure software meets defined quality standards.
- Collaborate in Agile teams to design, code, test, and review software and scripts.
- Contribute to build, deployment, and documentation tasks as needed.
- Support all phases of the acquisition lifecycle through engineering activities and documentation.
- Conduct system architecture analysis, including feasibility studies and state-of-the-art assessments.
- Develop and document system architectures, identify gaps, and recommend solutions using traditional or MBSE approaches.
- Maintain system architecture and interoperability requirements.
- Define operational requirements and interactions to support system development.
- Translate user needs into system-level requirements using DoD acquisition practices.
- Analyze training systems and simulators, and evaluate their designs.
- Apply DoD acquisition and sustainment engineering processes across product life cycles.
- Prepare/review specifications and apply modeling/simulation to optimize performance.
- Develop and integrate milestone documentation and reports per DoD/AF policies.
- Review contractor drawings for compliance with specifications and standards.
- Support all system engineering activities: requirements, design, verification, risk, interfaces, and configuration management.
- Share lessons learned and best practices while respecting proprietary constraints.
What We're Looking For
- Must have and be able to maintain a Top Secret Level Clearance with current SCI eligibility.
- Must be a US citizen.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a related field.
- 20+ years of experience with 12+ years of experience in the DoD.
- Experience with Information Technology (IT) systems and the design, development, testing, evaluation, and maintenance of software, including software Verification and Validation (V&V). Must meet Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II certification requirements per DoD 8570.01-M.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle for DoD systems, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, documentation, delivery, and sustainment, with knowledge of software engineering best practices.
- Familiarity with Electronic Warfare and/or Air Combat operations, including live aircrew training, tactics development, and range infrastructure systems.
- Experience developing networked protocols in Windows and Linux environments.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $160,000-$170,000 annually.
Work Mode
This role is onsite at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, MA.
Astrion is an equal opportunity employer.
