Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build and rapidly grow the EW Mission Software Engineering team
• Set the technical direction for mission software — architecture, engineering standards, tooling, and deployment practices
• Personally contribute hands-on engineering work: system debugging, software patching, infrastructure, and integration
• Own the delivery, installation, and sustainment of operational EW systems — from production through field deployment
• Triage field issues, drive root cause analysis, and coordinate rapid fixes across software and hardware teams
• Establish processes for incident response, post-incident review, and preventive engineering
• Partner with operators and customers to understand mission needs, translate them into engineering action, and close the feedback loop between the field and development
• Collaborate with embedded software, applications engineering, and test/QA to ensure mission-critical fixes flow into future releases

Job requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with meaningful time spent on production systems that can't go down
• 2+ years leading or managing a technical team (hiring, setting direction, driving execution)
• Strong proficiency in at least two of: Haskell, Rust, C++, Go, TypeScript
• Experience with Linux systems administration and debugging in production environments
• Demonstrated ability to work across the software stack — embedded systems, networking, applications, infrastructure
• Experience supporting or operating remotely deployed software/hardware systems
• Strong communication skills and comfort engaging directly with customers on technical matters
• Track record of operating effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments