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Senior Principal Scientific Software Engineer

Leidos

$148,850 - $269,075
Sep 30, 2025
Remote, US
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Leidos Innovations Center is seeking a Senior Principal Scientific Software Engineer to design, demonstrate, and deploy solutions for complex remote sensing problems for Department of Defense customers, focusing on camera sensors and real-time applications.

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of experience developing software in C++.
  • At least 10 years of experience in signal processing, data fusion, and tracking.
  • A technical understanding of sensor systems.
  • Experience in efficient data handling from sensor systems.
  • Strong C++ and Python programming along with experience in Golang, Java, and Matlab.
  • Knowledge and interest in memory safe software and formal methods for resilient systems.
  • An explicit knowledge of software static analysis, dynamic analysis, software profiling, thread concurrency, real-time design, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

  • You will design software architecture, understand the deployment hardware, develop software for real-time sensor applications, test software, and follow the configuration management and coding standards for the program.
  • You will work with a team of other software developers, engineers, and scientists to develop defense systems.
  • You will understand the fundamentals of the sensors, the algorithms, and the details of the software being developed.
  • You will develop data fusion software.

Other

  • MS degree in physics, mathematics, engineering, or other related disciplines with 15+ years of relevant experience or Doctorate in a technical domain above with 13+ years of relevant experience.
  • Must be a US Citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain and Top Secret security clearance (no clearance required to start).
  • Experience in a variety of engineering applications in commercial and defense applications.
  • Ability and interest to lead and mentor.