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Senior Software Architect
Sterling Heights, MI
Job Description
About the Role:
The function of this position is to lead the design and implementation of our franchise ground combat vehicle software (Abrams, Stryker, M10 Booker, and Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle). A seasoned software engineer with leadership skills who is well-versed in cyber security, system safety, and DevSecOps is the ideal candidate for this position.
Company Information
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
On-site presence
Hybrid - Due to the nature of the work, this role may require on-site presence up to 80%.
What We Offer
Whether you are just starting your career or you are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that is impactful and built for you.
- Healthcare, including medical, dental, vision, HSA, and flex spending
- Competitive base pay; incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance; and comprehensive benefits.
- 401k Match (6%)
- Educational assistance
- 9-80 Work Schedule (This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.)
- Ongoing learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive, and rewarding work environment
- Onsite cafeteria, remodeled with new equipment
- Fitness center and outdoor fitness track
- Designing strategies for scalable, testable, maintainable, functionally safe, and secure embedded software
- Designing networking and sensor fusion strategies for distributed embedded systems
- Designing service-oriented architectures (SOA)
- Designing DevSecOps solutions
- Collaborating with cross-functional members of the engineering organization to develop hardware and software interfaces
- Developing software using a variety of software languages
- Performing software requirements analysis
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) discipline preferably in the area of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university
- Minimum of 10 years software engineering experience (15-20 years experience preferred)
- Familiarity with Modular Open System Approach (MOSA)
- Familiarity with spatial and temporal freedom from interference (FFI) design concepts
- Familiarity with distributed I/O processing, sensor fusion, and controls design concepts
- Familiarity with network bridging and failover design concepts
- Familiarity with real-time Ethernet technologies, such as TTEthernet, AVB, and TSN
- Significant experience with operating in a Linux environment
- Significant experience with the engineering process V-Model
- Significant experience with software life cycle execution and artifact development
- Programming experience in high-level languages such as C#, Java, C++, Rust, or Ada. Openness to learning customer-specified languages required.
- Experience with automotive / military embedded systems and board support, including Linux device drivers, bootloaders, or other system programming
- Familiarity with networking or IPC (TCP; UDP; queues; pipes; domain sockets; SHM; packet capture and analysis; etc), including socket programming]
- Familiarity with Agile software development and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)
- SELinux policy development experience (nice to have, not required)
- Working knowledge of software tools such as Integrated Development Environments (IDE), version control (git), defect reporting
- Familiarity with user story or ticketing software (Rally, Jira, Asana, etc)
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project).
- Perform other duties/tasks as required.
Additional Requirements:
- This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance. (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance).
- This position will require the candidate to be able to climb on/off, work in, and work around military vehicles is desired. Must be able to pass ASR test (Anthropometric Size Requirement for confined space)
- The flexibility to work non-duty hours or on weekends as needed by the project
- The work environment will consist of office, prototype shop, plant operations, test lab and test sites.
- Travel to test sites or other locations will be required, as needed.
GDLS considers factors such as, scope/responsibilities of the position, candidate experience, education/training background, in addition to local market comparable and business considerations when extending an offer.
General Dynamics Land Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race and/or ethnic background, national origin and/or ancestry, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, age, military service, veteran status, disability, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, genetic information, or membership in any class protected by applicable law from discrimination in employment.
Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
10 to 15 years
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