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Position Summary:
The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech is seeking applicants for engineering staff members to support a growing body of research programs in Aerospace Systems, focusing on artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous systems, mission orchestration, coordination at scale, and cyber physical systems. The candidate will support research that primarily focuses on supporting the national security community. Consequently, US citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance are required. Entry-level and mid-career individuals are sought.
The successful applicant will have technical expertise in software engineering and general programming supporting cyber physical systems, with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: software configuration management, object orientated programming, NoSQL databases, data structures, embedded systems, compiled and interpreted languages, and/or distributed computing.
While this position is a general software engineering staff member of the Center who will support software development for a variety of projects, initial project work will focus on integrating distributed artificial intelligence and machine learning on DoD platforms. There is a specific interest in individuals who understand software best practices, software configuration management, embedded systems, and advanced data structures in support of running autonomous command and control algorithms.
Specific responsibilities include the following: (1) support the execution of university sponsored programs by conducting software programming and integration; (2) maintain software best practices and configuration management for applied research programs; (3) support the quality testing and evaluation of software in meeting internal and external requirements; and (4) follow and support the generation of technical documentation concerning project specific Application Program Interfaces ( API ), Interface Control Documentation ( ICD ), and report generation related to number (3).

Required Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship due to having access to security government information
- An earned Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering discipline with relevant experience;
- Evidence of software engineering skills with software integration and advanced data structures, especially in C, C++, and Python;
- Experience with software best practices and configuration management, especially git;
- Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team in executing upon research projects; and,
- Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Interest and/or experience in working effectively with a diverse faculty, staff and student population;
- Active security clearance at the TS/ SCI level;
- Experience working in an academic environment;
- Experience conducting research programs supporting the federal government.



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