Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Department: H20EI
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Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: H20EI
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STAHL Companies provides the Program Management for its Channel of Commercial Technology companies in Government that consist of Small Businesses and New Technology start‑ups. STAHL advocates for policies that can improve government services and maintain our government's competitive advantage, by bringing more technology into government programs. STAHL Companies advocates on behalf of our nation's innovative, new technology and small businesses looking to work with the U.S. government.

We do this by aligning the voice of our small business members with advocacy for change in federal policy that will make the government market more accessible to small businesses and the commercial technology ecosystem. The Channel's founding Technical Board Members include former government leaders and IT executives passionate about bringing best‑of‑breed technology to the government.

• Design, develop, maintain, and test software for operating systems, communications software, database packages, compilers, assemblers, or utility programs in support of Naval applications.
• Define and manage software requirements, perform code development, debugging, benchmark testing, and lifecycle management, ensuring software meets operational standards.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including Software Development Plans (SDPs), Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Interface Design Specifications (IDS), and software test plans/reports.
• Conduct software testing at multiple levels, analyze software performance, and define corrective measures to ensure reliability and compliance.
• Apply expertise in areas such as cybersecurity, real‑time programming, UML/SysML modeling, programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, DotNET), or advanced analytics (big data, machine learning, AI).
• Provide technical leadership, justify recommendations, and prepare comprehensive technical reports for stakeholders.

• Ten (10) years of experience in software engineering, or a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, Computer Science and six (6) years of experience in software engineering. Software engineering experience should be as a skilled developer creating or maintaining two or more of the following: operating systems, communications software, database packages, compilers, assemblers, and utility programs for software applications.
• Experience in definition and management of software requirements, design, code, benchmark testing, debugging, software development life cycles, architecture, and documentation.
• Experience in the understanding and developing of technical documents, including Software Development Plans (SDPs), Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Interface Change Requests (ICRs), Interface Design Specification (IDS), software test plans/reports and analytical evaluations of software performance in realistic operational Naval environments and scenarios.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and support technical positions to justify technical recommendations and to write technical reports.
• Experience must include at least one (1) of the following areas:
  • Cyber‑security
  • Programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, DotNET
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)/Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
  • Real‑time programming
  • Conducting software testing at multiple levels (unit, system, system of systems), performing analyses to predict and quantify software constraints, defining/designing actionable corrective measures
  • Big data, data mining, machine learning, or artificial intelligence techniques

* Position is contingent upon award.

Work Location:

Dahlgren NSWC, Virginia, United States. To know more about the company, visit Stahl Companies (stahlusa.us)

• Design, develop, maintain, and test software for operating systems, communications software, database packages, compilers, assemblers, or utility programs in support of Naval applications.
• Define and manage software requirements, perform code development, debugging, benchmark testing, and lifecycle management, ensuring software meets operational standards.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including Software Development Plans (SDPs), Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Interface Design Specifications (IDS), and software test plans/reports.
• Conduct software testing at multiple levels, analyze software performance, and define corrective measures to ensure reliability and compliance.
• Apply expertise in areas such as cybersecurity, real‑time programming, UML/SysML modeling, programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, DotNET), or advanced analytics (big data, machine learning, AI).
• Provide technical leadership, justify recommendations, and prepare comprehensive technical reports for stakeholders.