Raytheon

Principal Software Engineer

Posted on: 8 Mar 2021

Riverdale, MD

Job Description

Raytheon Technologies is looking for a skilled Principal Software Engineer on our EED-2 (EOSDIS Evolution and Development) team in Riverdale, Maryland. EED-2 (EOSDIS Evolution and Development) team supports NASA in its mission to provide scientists and other users access to data from NASAs Earth science missions.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will develop innovative tools allowing scientists and students alike to discover, transform, update and improve the quality of earth science data in the pursuit of solving a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues. Specifically, this opening is for a Principal Software Engineer, initially on EED-2s Cumulus team. Cumulus is an AWS hosted data archive for Earth science records from around the world. The Cumulus team is an established and high performing agile team working in the Scaled Agile Framework methodology.

Primary Responsibilities:
Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle from user story generation, through design, development, automated testing and operational support
Develop new feature ideas to meet the ever evolving needs of our end-users
Continually help the team grow by sharing new ideas and industry best practices
Suggest improvements to processes and tools to help the team be more efficient

All candidates must be able to pass a National Agency Clearance with Inquires (NACI) screening

Experience, Knowledge, and/or Skills Requirement:
8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
Experience with React
Experience with Front-end design and development
Experience with UI/UX experience and customer attentive interviews
Ability to work as a member of small team using the Scrum methodology
Firm commitment to automated testing and continuous integration
Proponent of continuous improvement; willingness to bring new ideas to the team
Energetic, self-motivated, team player

Education Requirement:
STEM Degree in a technical major, such as Computer Science or Engineering

Desired Skills:
Experience with node.js
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including at a minimum S3, IAM, Lambda and Terraform
Experience working in a development team using an Agile methodology (preferably Scrum or SAFe)
Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo)
Experience developing on MacOS X and deploying to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Experience presenting at technical conferences

This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.
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Raytheon

Waltham, MA

Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.

The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.

The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.

Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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