Our client, a leading federal defense contractor has an immediate contract opening for a Sr. Modem Software Engineer with an active TS/SCI for their Restricted Ground Systems in Scottsdale, AZ. You'll be a member of a cross functional team responsible for supporting Ground Station Development to perform software requirements analysis, participates in research, designs, develops and tests software, hardware, Modem and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems or embedded products.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:

- Codes, tests, integrates and documents software solutions
- Researches and analyzes data, such as customer design proposals, market trends, state of technology and industry, specifications and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application
- Participates in internal review of software components and Modem systems
- Receives little instruction on day-to-day work
- More often responsible to define the scope, schedule and expectations for the work they execute or lead
- Independently determines approach to solutions
- Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained
- Contributes and accountable to the completion of major programs and projects
- Responsible for resolution of significant and diverse problems and issues of broad scope and complexity
- May provide leadership and/or direction to lower level employees and teams
- Failure to accomplish results or errors may cause significant project delays or require the substantial allocation of additional resources
- Collaborates with senior management and leadership within engineering and sometimes across the company
- Frequently works with organizations outside engineering or with external customers
- Builds stable working relationships internally
- Networks with senior internal and external personnel

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Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- DoD TS/SCI clearance is required at time of hire
- Requires a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field and 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
- Agile experience preferred

Technical Skills:
- Communication Protocols
- Linux
- Software Defined Modems
- DevSecOps
- Cloud (preferably AWS)
- Network Systems
- C++, C