Capstone Research Corporation
Software Engineer
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Job Description
Capstone Research Corporation is seeking to expand our team. Capstone Research Corporation is headquartered in Huntsville Alabama. We are a customer-oriented engineering services company providing world class research and development support across the Department of Defense (DoD): Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). We have an immediate opening for a Software Engineer to work in our Huntsville, AL office. The successful candidate will join the interdisciplinary Systems Analysis Group supporting existing Joint Tactical Integrated Fire Control projects/programs. We are looking for a high-performing engineer who takes pride in building robust systems, writing clean code, and continuously improving both themselves and the codebase around them. The successful candidate will be a strong technical contributor who can quickly internalize system architecture, operate with ownership, and deliver production-quality C++ code with minimal oversight.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field
- 1 - 5 years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++17 or newer)
- Experience with CMake across multi-repository projects
- Experience writing and maintaining unit tests using Google Test (or similar framework)
- Working knowledge of: Multithreading (std::thread, mutex, condition_variable, atomics)
- Working knowledge of: Networking fundamentals (e.g. UDP, TCP, ZeroMQ, IP basics)
- Working knowledge of: Serialization frameworks (e.g. protobuf)
- Ability to operate independently with technical guidance
- Excellent problem-solving skills and effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time
- 3 references, including 1 personal and 2 who are familiar with the candidate's prior professional work experience
- U.S. Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with DoD operations, concepts, and technologies and their supporting sensors, effectors, and networks
- Experience working with CI/CD systems (GitLab CI preferred)
- Experience with safety-critical, defense, aerospace, or real-time systems
- MS Software Engineering
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Location
Huntsville, AL
Posted
1 day ago
Country
US