Job Title: Engineer Embedded Software 3 Location: Manhattan Beach, CA Zip Code: 90266 Duration: 16 Months Pay Rate: Up to $79.84/hr. Schedule: 9/80A Start Date: Immediate Keyword's: #ManhattanBeachjobs; #engineerembeddedsoftwarejobs. *You must currently have an active Secret Clearance* JOB DESCRIPTION Our clients Strategic Space Systems is looking for you to join their team as a Software Engineer - Tester with the Software Engineering organization based out of Manhattan Beach, CA. The Software Engineer will test software which will operate in a resource constrained target environment with soft and hard real time requirements for various flight/space/ground systems. The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms. Candidate will need familiarity with various processors, memory, and I/O architectures and be able to implement both procedural and object-oriented software in C++. Candidates will work with real-time operating systems, such as VxWorks or Linux, and their associated host/development environments and tools. Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions. Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product software. Determines overall system and user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops utility programs. Ensure software standards are met. Candidates should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for automated test sets/test systems on space programs. Candidates should have experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing waterfall, spiral, or agile processes. Candidates should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineering from other engineering disciplines in a lab environment. Basic Qualifications: *Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering from an ABET university with minimum of 5+ years software development experience *Must have software development experience in C/C++ *Experience with formal verification processes following TLYF methodology to sell off embedded flight software requirements (functional/performance) *Prefer a software engineer with full-time employment experience *Active DoD Secret Clearance Minimum Security Clearance SECRET