Energy Automation Software Engineer

Leidos, a Fortune 500 company, and leader in the Energy Infrastructure and Automation market, is seeking to hire an Energy Automation Software Engineer to join our team. This a great opportunity for someone with broad skills across software design and development to help lead the design and delivery of next generation AI-enabled energy and power design solutions.  The selected candidate will work with internal customers, leaders, and engineering teams to understand and refine current and future energy design workflows, collaboratively envision future technology-enabled workflows, understand AI and automation technologies to help achieve those changes, and lead the charge to design and deploy software solutions that underpin next generation power engineering services.

The ideal candidate will have exceptional skills in communication, engagement, collaboration, team leadership and be a self-starter requiring minimal supervision and direction.  The responsibilities for this position include all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and automated testing within an Agile development model. In this role, you will join a dynamic team that is focused on providing world class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a fast-paced, fun environment.

Location: This position allows for Telework but requires candidate to be located in the US.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and build complex solutions.
• Collaborate with business user and subject matter experts to elicit customer requirements to build the design and software product.
• Develop software code; create test cases and deployment plans for software solutions.
• Working individually and collaborate on assignments that cover the full project lifecycle from planning through implementation.
• Take high level architecture design and translate into low level software design. Work with the Software Architect and team to enhance, modify and incorporate changes as required.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with four plus (4+) years of software engineering experience.
• This position requires U.S Citizenship.
• Experience developing and delivering complex software systems into production.
• Hands-on expertise with object-oriented programming (Java, C++, C#) and databases (SQL and NoSQL).
• Strong proficiency with web technologies including HTML, CSS, REST, JSON, JavaScript and React.
• Strong proficiency in Python scripting.
• Strong understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards.
• Working knowledge of Agile development and continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools.
• Experience with a version control system (e.g., Git).
• Experience with an issue/problem tracking system (e.g., Jira).
• Proficiency with multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.).
• Proficiency with Cloud environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle leveraging technologies such as EC2, Serverless (e.g. Lambda), Batch, Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
• Interest and ability to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. Ability to evaluate technologies and make recommendations to the software development team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Direct experience with electric power domains (low/medium/high-voltage power system design)
• Formal AI training courses or degree

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The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.