Job Description:

• Maintain codebase in Git that spans multiple classification levels and air-gapped networks

• Write technical documentation and users manuals for technical software

• Develop example scripts and unit tests to verify functionality of MATLAB object-oriented codebase

• Perform regression testing across multiple MATLAB versions to ensure compatibility

• Optimize existing codebase through utilization of parallelization and/or GPU techniques

• Serve as technical support for internal and external collaborators

• Add additional error and bounds checking on existing functions

• Develop user interfaces including GUIs to aid in software utilization

• Work with staff at the Laboratory to incorporate existing tools and algorithms into common framework

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with MATLAB simulation development, including familiarity with recent (2019b ) argument validation and object-oriented features

• Demonstrated experience managing software version control repository using Git (GitHub/GitLab)

• Experience managing software repository across multiple air-gapped networks (for example using Git bundle)

• Demonstrated experience coding in object-oriented programming style

• Experience documenting MATLAB code utilizing built-in ‘help’ and ‘doc’ functionality

• Demonstrated experience supporting the development of large simulation codebases with multiple collaborators

• Demonstrated experience working on aerospace simulations

• Superior English technical writing skills in support of writing and maintaining effective software documentation (including user guides) following specific style guidelines

• Ability to solve problems independently

• Ability to collaborate and coordinate in teams of 5-10 people

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with missile defense and/or hypersonic technology and concepts

• Sound knowledge of Java, Python, and C/C

• Familiarity with code development and maintenance on Linux-based systems

• Experience conducting code reviews with a large team of stakeholders

• Experience with parallel computing environments and job management using Slurm

• Coursework or project experience in tracking, data fitting, statistics, flight simulation

• Experience with data management

• Ability to work with multiple I/O file formats, including writing parsers

Other:

Work location: On-site — Individual works generally on-site at the Lexington facility. There may be flexibility to work from home (depending on needs of the program) approx. 1 day a week.

Clearance: Candidates must have an active secret clearance to be considered for this position.