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Job ID: 2613367

Location: Huntsville, AL, US

Date Posted: 2026-06-04

Category: Software

Subcategory: SW Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Open GL Developer to join our team in Huntsville, AL.

The Network, System Integration and Test Environment (NSITE) is a government owned, managed, and developed software suite. NSITE is used by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Joint Services, and numerous labs in support of continued testing of systems employed for defense of the United States and our Allies.  The NSITE software provides data collection, situational awareness, and analysis capabilities to a wide range of users who benefit from NSITE’s ability to act as an independent third-party truth teller. The NSITE team has in-depth experience in Tactical Data Links (TDL), Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Test, Enterprise Information Technology, Software and Systems Engineering and Information Assurance. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining the NSITE software application suite.
• Work on an agile development team where success is defined by the ability to understand your path forward, effectively communicate that path, and complete the task inherent to that path in a timely matter.
• Communicate with leadership and the customer to ensure a common understanding of requirements.
• Document your work for the benefit of your teammates, the user, leadership, and posterity.
• Identify and solve challenging problems by writing performant, clean, and practical code.
• Develop and maintain rendering pipelines using OpenGL.
• Optimize rendering performance for NSITE, a desktop application.

Qualifications

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent and five (5) years of experience; Additional six (6) years’ experience can be considered in lieu of degree (per contract vehicle).

Clearance Requirements:

• Must possess an active Interim Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance; US Citizenship required.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience with OpenGL in a production environment.
• Solid understanding of 3D math (linear algebra, transformations, lighting models).
• Proficient in C# and in the Microsoft .NET Framework.
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, including Agile methodologies.
• Ability to analyze a requirement, generate a design, and produce efficient, robust, and testable software.
• Mastery of computer science fundamentals, independent of a specific language.
• Experience with database structures and fundamentals of database query languages (SQLite experience preferred).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of and experience with secure programming techniques.
• Familiarity with game engines or custom rendering engines.
• Strong knowledge of computer graphics, GPU programming and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with WPF based control sets such as DevExpress, Telerik, or Infragistics.
• Experience working on a highly networked application.
• Knowledge of tactical and simulation data links (specifically Link 16, JREAP, DIS, VMF, CMF and XML).
• Experience working with Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Experience with using Git version control and GitLab as software management tools.
• Currently have an Information Assurance Technical certification (CompTia A+, Net+ or Sec+) or the ability to obtain one.

Travel Required:  

• Less than 10% annually.