Software Engineer

Job ID 2500954

Location FORT SILL, OK, US

Date Posted 2025-01-23

Category Software

Subcategory SW Engineer

Schedule Full-time

Shift Day Job

Travel Yes, 25 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain TS/SCI

Potential for Remote Work No

Description

SAIC is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical design and programming for enhancements to combat system capabilities, unit behaviors, terrain interactions, data post-processing, graphical user interface, etc., for the FireSim XXI software. Two programmers are required.
• The candidate shall provide written documentation of changes to source code, required to maintain FireSim XXI software. Written documentation will conform to established FireSim XXI documentation file formats and will be briefed to the FireSim XXI Configuration Control Board (CCB) when required.
• The candidate shall maintain proficient operator-level knowledge of Fires Simulations and Fires tactical systems to include AFATDS and FireSim XXI in order to provide operational support to the field for the following experiments and demonstrations MFIX, AFC Experimentation Campaign, FCC Experimentation Campaign, and others as addressed by the AFC Experiment Guidance but not to exceed ten experiments each fiscal year.
• The candidate shall have skills to provide networking expertise in order to integrate and maintain FireSim XXI interoperability with tactical devices or other simulations in Distributed Interactive Simulation or High-Level Architecture experimentation, training and demonstration environments such as the BLCSE and JLCCTC-ERF.
• The candidate shall provide FireSim XXI technical support to experiments, exercises, fielding, and demonstrations conducted or supported by the Fires Battle Lab.
  
  

Deliverables

• The candidate shall provide deliverables in Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheets, Power Point, Visio etc). Floor plans (if required) shall be developed in Visio but placed into Microsoft Office products.
• The candidate shall provide one paper copy and one digital copy of actions taken for the development, maintenance and sustainment of FireSim XXI software. This information is for the FBL task tracking folder.
• The candidate shall provide one digital copy of the FireSim XXI source code in a format to be specified by the Battle Lab reflecting and annotating any modifications to the FireSim XXI baseline.
• The candidate shall provide one digital and one paper copy highlighting and identifying code modifications made to the CCB approved FireSim XXI baseline to be incorporated into FireSim XXI software documentation files.
• The candidate shall provide one digital and one paper copy highlighting any database structural changes required to support software code modifications to be incorporated into FireSim XXI software documentation files.
• The candidate shall provide code and documentation updates by Simulation Change Request (SCR) task assigned to the Contractor for development.
• The candidate shall provide detailed FireSim XXI user documentation changes by SCR task assigned to Contractor.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Education

Bachelors and two (2) years or more experience; Masters and zero (0) years related experience.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a Bachelor's in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from an accredited institution. The course work should include 15 credits of upper level math.
• Extensive training within the following subject areas computer science, mathematics, statistics, object-oriented programming, data structures and/or algorithm design.
• Demonstrated experience in abstracting complex problems into efficient, reusable, and robust software code.
• Experience with Agile software coding practices for code development and testing purposes especially within the realm of military simulations (scenarios, force structures, fire systems, sensor systems, munitions, etc.).
• Experience using software testing and configuration management practices.
• Experience applying advanced programming techniques to include, but not limited to, object-oriented design, advanced data structures and file structures, numerical algorithms, and data search and retrieval techniques.
• Experience integrating simulations into distributed simulation environments, especially within Distributed Interactive Simulations (DIS) architectures and High-Level Architecture (HLA) environments working with Federation Object Models (FOMs).
• Experience programming with object-oriented usage of C and C Programming Languages and demonstrated experience in usage of Linux Operating Systems.
• Experience with programming large software applications, especially within stochastic, event driven, entity-based simulations such as FireSim XXI.
  
  

Clearance

Candidate must have a Secret clearance to start with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance in the first 90 days of working.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.