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At PLEXSYS, our teams design, build and deliver Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) innovation and training solutions to customers around the world. With over 200 employees in seventeen states and four foreign countries, we contribute our success to enabling better training...everyday...across the globe.

As an employee of PLEXSYS, you'll find a culture that empowers you to achieve your professional objectives, give your personal best, and work with other highly passionate individuals. Our core values of integrity, excellence, teamwork and agility drive our daily decisions, identify our focus areas, and inspire our organizational culture.

A Senior Software Engineer (SSE) is responsible for designing, developing, and modifying corporate software applications. The SSE is expected to generate concise feature requirement specifications and design documents. Additionally, the SSE is expected to track development timelines, lead the design phase, and negotiate feature sets with the product development leads as well as product managers. The SSE is required to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish assigned development goals. The SSE provides leadership, mentorship and guidance to junior and intermediate level engineers. This position reports directly to a Product Manager or Applications Development Manager.

**This position is IN OFFICE at our Camas, WA headquarters.**

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide detailed software designs as well as implement and/or maintain code according to duties and responsibilities
• Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish assigned projects
• Provide guidance to junior and intermediate engineers, assisting them with planning and accomplishing assigned projects.
• Perform a variety of complicated engineering tasks
• Provide both remote and on-site technical support to current and potential customers
• Generate detailed software design as well as implement and/or maintain code according to duties and responsibilities
• Manage and adhere to schedules, deadlines and development goals
• Other duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's in computer science or related field, Master's desirable
• Four (4) plus years of Professional Object-Oriented Software Design and Implementation Experience
• Demonstrated organizational, leadership, decision-making and communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Ability to apply creativity and latitude in solutions is required
• Ability to periodically travel as business needs dictate
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance: Secret

Desirable

• Knowledge of modeling and simulation concepts and practices
• Experience writing software using C++ and SCALA
• Experience writing software with Qt/QML
• Experience with voice and audio sampling, formats, streaming, and processing
• Knowledge of RF and radio transmission systems
• Experience utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies
• Experience training AI models
• Ability to analyze, debug, and optimize a complex software project
• Experience working with modeling and simulation software products and concepts
• Military experience in a Command and Control or Intelligence Reconnaissance and Surveillance career field
• Ability to setup, configure and troubleshoot a local area network
• Familiarity using JIRA, Confluence, Visual Studio, and Perforce
• Familiarity with SISO and DMO Standards
• Experience in Database Management

PERKS

As a PLEXSYS employee, you can expect certain advantages; such as advancement based on performance, competitive wages, valuable benefits and a great working environment. Our team is committed to ensuring an environment that empowers individuals to realize their full potential by providing opportunities and necessary support to achieve personal and professional goals.

• Medical/Vision/Prescription/Dental Benefits
• Life, AD&D and Long Term Disability Coverage
• Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and Paid Time Off
• 401k Plan with eligibility from first day of employment
• Education reimbursement for job-related courses for full-time employees
• PriceClub/COSTCO/Sam's Club annual membership