Associate Software Engineer Jobs in Kissimmee, FL

TheNational Solutions Business Areaat Leidos currently has an opening for aSenior Software Engineerto support advanced software development efforts inOrlando, FL. This is an exciting opportunity toleverageyourexpertisedeveloping innovative software solutions that support mission-critical capabilities for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

In this role, you will serve as a senior technical contributor and technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-performance software solutions that address complex engineering challenges. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to develop next-generation capabilities spanning high-performance computing, computer vision, image and mesh processing, geospatial analytics, artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, and advanced visualization.

The successful candidate willpossessdeepexpertisein modern software engineering principles and advanced programming techniques while helping define technical strategy, mentoring engineering teams, and collaborating with government customers to transition innovative research into operational capability. This position requires the ability to solvehighly complextechnical problems, influence architectural decisions, and contribute to the strategic direction of critical programs

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, integrate, andmaintaincomplex software systems throughout the complete software development lifecycle.

• Architect and implement high-performance software applications.

• Develop scalable algorithms for computer vision, image processing, computational geometry, mesh processing, photogrammetry, and geospatial data exploitation.

• Design andoptimizeGPU-accelerated software using CUDA and parallel computing technologies.

• Develop software frameworks, reusable libraries, APIs, and services supporting mission applications.

• Perform software architecture, design reviews, code reviews, debugging, profiling, and performance optimization.

• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and government customers to develop innovative technical solutions for complex mission challenges.

• Lead technical planning, software architecture decisions, risk identification, and implementation strategies for large, complex software efforts.

• Mentor software engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple development teams.

• Research emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability to customer missions.

• Support customer demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and program milestones.

• Develop andmaintaintechnical documentation, software design artifacts, interface documentation, and engineering reports.

• Ensure software quality through automated testing, configuration management, continuous integration, andDevSecOpsbest practices.

• Contribute to technical proposals, innovation initiatives, and research activities supporting future business growth.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM discipline with 12-15 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 10-13 years of relevant experience.Additionalexperience may be considered in lieu of a degreein accordance withLeidos equivalency guidelines.

• Advancedproficiencyin one or more programming languages, such as C++, Python, C#, Java, or C.

• Extensive experience designing, developing, integrating, testing, deploying, andmaintainingcomplex software applications throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Experience designing software architecture, processing pipelines, plugins, automation tools, or reusable software components.

• Experience developing software for Windows and Linux environments.

• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical problems, modernize existing software, and applynew technologiesto improve software capabilities and development efficiency.

• Experience providing senior-level technicalexpertiseand contributing to software design, implementation, integration, and technical approach decisions.

• Experience working in Agile software development environments and using configuration management tools such as Git, GitHub, or GitLab.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating with government customers and multidisciplinary technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing distributed or scalable software-processing workflows for large datasets.

• Experience with computer vision, image processing, computational geometry, mesh processing, photogrammetry, or point-cloud processing.

• Experience processing terrain data, imagery, LiDAR, drone imagery, or other large geospatial datasets.

• Experience with geospatial and image-processing technologies such as GDAL, PDAL, CGAL, OpenCV, ArcGIS, QGIS,Assimp, orOpenSceneGraph.

• Experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, AI-assisted software development, or workflow automation.

• Experience developing modeling, simulation, military training, or advanced visualization systems for Department of Defense customers.

• Experience with distributed processing, cloud technologies, containerization, or related development tools such as AWS and Docker.

• Experience applying research, emerging technologies, or internally developed capabilities to complex software engineering efforts.

• Experience supporting software integration, testing, training, demonstrations, or fielded government systems.