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Position Introduction/Key Duties

Cimarron is seeking a Guidance, Navigation & Control SoftwareEngineer to support the Conventional Prompt Strike missile program in Littleton, Colorado. The Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program is designing and fielding the hypersonic boost/glide system for the US Army and Navy. Our Guidance, Navigation & Control Software Integrated Product Team (IPT) within CPS is responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and verifying the software which flies the missile and glide body, and the embedded Flight Software (FSW) which hosts the NG&C algorithms and provides health, status, and sequencing for the entire system. Additionally, we develop and maintain the Flight Software testbeds (HILs or HWILs) which provide complete hardware integration testing with feedback and flight simulation, and the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) Software which enables system verification and production system checkout and flight test support.

This role will be focused on shaping the vision for future development based on our customer's advanced mission needs. It will require an understanding of our current solution and a willingness to work closely with our customers and mission partners to plan out how we can evolve our design to meet their needs while staying within their financial and schedule guardrails. In addition, you will work closely with the Product Managers to lay out high-level roadmaps that allow the team to implement the vision in line with key program milestones. The ideal candidate should have a strong systems engineering and architecture background as well as a deep understanding of embedded software design. If you think this describes you and you are looking for an opportunity to grow and challenge yourself then we would love for you to apply!

Key Duties

• Serve as an enthusiastic champion of what the future can be, connecting our teams to the exciting vision of what this system can be!
• Clearly articulate the future architecture to customers, senior leadership, national partners, and stakeholders.
• Help shape system-level solutions, including use cases, CONOPS, architectures, and requirements.
• Partner with the Thread Leads, Systems Engineers, and Architects to understand our customer's evolving mission and needs.
• Guide the development and integration of the Flight Software system models SysML/UML models.
• Ensure clear and sufficient integration between the mission needs, software architecture, and requirements.
• Build strong, transparent partnerships with customer counterparts, industry partners, and government labs for software development.
• Investigate alternative approaches and perform trades to provide the greatest value to our customers.
• Own and evolve the Flight Software architecture to enable system-level solutions.
• Work with the Thread Leads to translate the architecture into top-level design roadmaps that meet program milestones.

Required/Desired Skills, Experience, And Education

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Ability to obtain an Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience across the software development life cycle from solution/requirements definition to integration and test.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience with real-time, embedded software development such as missiles, spacecraft, aircraft, robotics, or automotive.
• Due to facility security requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for consideration at this time.
• Cimarron employees are required to follow federal, state, and local laws regarding COVID-19 practices, as well as customer requirements.
• 5 or more years of related experience.

Desired Skills, Experience, And Education

• Experience developing with C/C++ or similar on embedded, realtime systems.
• Familiar with software architecture, development, and qualification for safety critical and/or cyber-hardened systems.
• Familiar with Model Based Systems Engineering and modeling languages (SysML, UML).
• Ability to empathize with the challenges other development teams are facing while upholding our commitment to software quality and mission success.
• Experience working with Army and Navy customers.
• Experience with Green Hills INTEGRITY, Wind River VxWorks, or equivalent embedded RTOS.
• Experience leading and planning within an Agile development environment.
• Experience integrating, testing, and qualifying embedded software for safety-critical applications.
• Leadership experience within larger (20-40 engineers) software development efforts.
• Demonstrated experience integrating and testing software with hardware.
• Active Secret Clearance.

Business Profile

Cimarron is a global solutions company with a strategic partnering approach to satisfying customer-driven requirements. We ensure customer success with a modern approach and experienced leadership. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Cimarron is fueled by highly skilled employees, developing new innovative technologies, and delivering superior products and services. We believe in recognizing employees' worth by offering competitive salaries and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) contributions, educational reimbursement, and much more. From company communication through Company-wide information meetings led by our President and CEO, to an Awards program designed to recognize our amazing employees and their accomplishments, you will not only feel like you are a part of a team, you will be a valued member of the Cimarron family. Cimarron is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/Disability/Veteran.