Principal Software Engineer, Geospatial Mission Systems

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🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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MAG Aerospace

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2009

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

MAG Aerospace is a provider of full-spectrum Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) services. With a strong focus on technology integration, cyber communications, data analysis, and program management, MAG delivers innovative engineering solutions designed for multitasking across various operational domains, including air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace. The company is committed to enhancing operational efficiency through next-generation capabilities and mission-critical services, ensuring resiliency and effectiveness in complex environments.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture, development, integration, and sustainment of geospatial and situational-awareness applications supporting defense and mission operations • Design and maintain client, server, database, and service components within distributed software architectures • Develop map-based user interfaces and data-visualization capabilities for operational tracks across air, surface, ground, subsurface, and related domains • Integrate software with radars, sensors, external data feeds, and mission-system interfaces • Build and refine geospatial components using vector, terrain, imagery, and open-source mapping data • Design solutions for geospatial data storage, querying, transformation, dissemination, and display • Evaluate and incorporate new mapping technologies, open standards, data formats, and open-source components • Translate customer and operator needs into software requirements, technical designs, prototypes, and production releases • Provide technical leadership across design reviews, coding, testing, documentation, deployment, and sustainment • Diagnose complex software, data, network, and systems-integration issues in development and operational environments • Mentor engineers and establish sound development, integration, and documentation practices • Build relationships with government customers, end users, systems engineers, and partner development teams • Deliver technical demonstrations, training, documentation, and user support • Contribute to technical planning, solution development, and customer discussions for follow-on capabilities • Establish technical ownership of assigned geospatial mission-software components and integration points • Deliver enhancements to mapping, sensor-ingestion, track-display, and data-management capabilities • Reduce integration and sustainment risk through improved architecture, testing, documentation, and technical practices • Create a roadmap for evolving the system while protecting mission continuity and interoperability

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive software-development experience, including technical leadership or ownership of complex applications • Experience developing mapping, GIS, geospatial visualization, or situational-awareness software • Strong hands-on programming experience in Java and at least one additional language such as JavaScript, C++, or Python • Experience with distributed or client-server architectures, databases, APIs, and networked services • Experience integrating real-time or near-real-time data from sensors, radars, tracking systems, or other external sources • Working knowledge of geospatial data types and services, including vector data, terrain/elevation data, imagery, OpenStreetMap, spatial databases, or web map services • Ability to lead work across requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, test, deployment, and sustainment • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to customers and end users • Ability to work effectively in a defense-contracting environment with geographically distributed teams and mission stakeholders • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, geographic information science, or a related technical field • Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance • Preferred: Master's degree in computer science, geographic information science, or a related field • Preferred experience with maritime domain awareness, command and control, C2/C4ISR/C5ISR, mission planning, battlespace visualization, radar tracks, sensor fusion, track management, tactical data, operational common-picture applications, mapping frameworks, spatially enabled databases, NGA data products and formats, OGC standards and services, open-source software, simulation/training/after-action review/spatial-analysis applications, and U.S. Government or Department of Defense customers • Active U.S. security clearance preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health benefits • Life insurance • Disability benefits • Financial benefits • Retirement benefits • Paid leave • Professional development • Tuition assistance • Total Rewards programs for eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours per week