The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Senior Software Verification & Validation Engineer

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
  • 5-10 years of experience in Software Engineering or related field.
  • Experience in design, development, or integration & testing of safety-critical systems.
  • Proficiency in high-level programming languages (C/C++, Rust); familiarity with C, Python, and Matlab is a plus.
  • Experience with UML/SysML and embedded systems testing and debugging.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate requirements and propose design solutions.
  • Design and develop algorithms using modern techniques.
  • Create and implement embedded software based on algorithms under supervision.
  • Analyze software designs for performance and functionality.
  • Develop and execute software tests to ensure compliance with requirements and troubleshoot issues for solutions.
  • Prepare technical documentation including reports and manuals.
  • Mentor junior engineers and assist in problem-solving complex software challenges.

Benefits

  • Workplace flexibility to improve work-life balance.
  • Employee clubs and workshops focused on health and finance.
  • Access to off-site social events and cultural discounts.
  • Commitment to an inclusive environment and equal opportunity.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary:
The Software Engineer (SMTS) develops high performance solutions for resource constrained targets. Develops next-generation resilient and fault tolerant software solutions in the application domains of undersea, terrestrial, air, hypersonics and space. The Engineer is involved in the full software development life cycle.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
• Evaluates requirements, proposes solutions, explores design trades to support a design.
• Designs algorithms using modern theory and proven techniques.
• Develops embedded software based on prototype algorithms with supervision.
• Analyzes designs to demonstrate performance and functionality.
• Develops and executes software tests to check compliance with requirements.
• Evaluates results to establish problem causes and develop solutions for inefficient or problems.
• Prepares technical data, procedures, reports, drawings, manuals, and other required documentation.
• Communicates with customers and stakeholders to establish requirements and describe the design and deliverables.
• Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction - contribute to requirements development and architecture solution ideation.
• Ability to take responsibility for subset of engineering scope.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.
• Actively mentor less experienced engineers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills/Abilities
• Excellent development and troubleshooting skills on embedded targets.
• Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques, IP protocols, interfaces and hardware subsystems.
• Expertise in software development for real-time systems.
• Mastery of high level development languages (e.g. C/C++, Rust)
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review processes.
• Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience with UML/SysML.
• Experience with in-circuit emulators, JTAG debuggers and laboratory test equipment.

Education
Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

Experience
Requires 5-10 years experience in Software Engineering or related.

Additional Job Description:

Need for a "systems" thinker with experience in design, development, or I&T of safety critical systems to coordinate V&V guidance system software. Lead the technical effort of independently verifying and validating safety critical software. Must understand V&V process and how it fits into system lifecycle. Staff must be able to independently interpret changes to ConOps and System designs and map these to expected software changes to verify. Must be able to create test plans, requirement verification Test Matrices (RVTMs) and mentor junior staff. Must be able to identify alternative methods of verification and prioritize efforts based on cost, schedule, risk, and availability of test facilities.

Nice to have skills are C, Python, Matlab, Simulink, PowerPC assembly, SIMICs, CI/CD.

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain & maintain a government security clearance. Secret Clearance is preferred.

Job Location - City:
Cambridge

Job Location - State:
Massachusetts

Job Location - Postal Code:


The US base salary range for this full-time position is
$82,300.00 - $220,000.00
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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