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Software Engineer-Developer 4 with Security Clearance

PDS Defense Inc.Oklahoma City, OK🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 8, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This exciting hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge aerospace technology, fostering significant career growth and skill development within an agile, collaborative team. If you are a self-motivated Software Engineer with embedded systems experience and a desire to work on impactful projects, you'll thrive in this environment. Apply now to leverage your expertise and help shape the future of defense systems.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Posted
2 weeks ago

Job Description

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer-Developer 4, in Oklahoma City, OK. Job ID#217554 Job Description: Designs, develops, tests, and maintains safety-critical embedded software across the full product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements. Translates customer and sDesigns, develops, tests, and maintains safety-critical embedded software across the full product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory requirements.

Translates customer and system requirements into robust, testable software architectures and detailed designs, implements and optimizes software components and algorithms for system integration and performance, and creates and maintains comprehensive documentation including requirements traceability, design descriptions, test plans, and release notes. Leads verification and validation activities (unit, integration, system, regression), produces certification evidence and safety artifacts, and debugs and resolves defects and field issues to maximize reliability and availability.

Responds to user inquiries and technical support tickets, incorporates user feedback into prioritized improvements, and evaluates and adopts emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and regulatory changes to keep the software and processes current. Establishes, monitors, and continuously improves development processes, toolchains, and KPIs to align teams with organizational objectives and industry benchmarks, plans and executes R&D projects and feasibility studies, and provides domain expertise on software architecture, safety analyses, compliance, and lifecycle practices.

Performs software project management activities including schedule tracking, risk management, and resource planning, and manages software suppliers and partners by defining requirements, evaluating deliverables, and monitoring supplier performance to ensure product and process compliance with project plans and industry standards.

System requirements into robust, testable software architectures and detailed designs, implements and optimizes software components and algorithms for system integration and performance, and creates and maintains comprehensive documentation including requirements traceability, design descriptions, test plans, and release notes. Leads verification and validation activities (unit, integration, system, regression), produces certification evidence and safety artifacts, and debugs and resolves defects and field issues to maximize reliability and availability.

Responds to user inquiries and technical support tickets, incorporates user feedback into prioritized improvements, and evaluates and adopts emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and regulatory changes to keep the software and processes current. Establishes, monitors, and continuously improves development processes, toolchains, and KPIs to align teams with organizational objectives and industry benchmarks, plans and executes R&D projects and feasibility studies, and provides domain expertise on software architecture, safety analyses, compliance, and lifecycle practices.

Performs software project management activities including schedule tracking, risk management, and resource planning, and manages software suppliers and partners by defining requirements, evaluating deliverables, and monitoring supplier performance to ensure product and process compliance with project plans and industry standards.

Qualifications

Develop Mission Systems Software Architecture
Fluency in both UML and SysML
Fluency in MBSE practice and Model Driven Software Engineering
Ability to translate customer needs into non-functional requirements/quality attributes
Ability to translate non-function requirements/quality attributes into known software architecture patterns
Ability to manage and trade off multiple concurrent issues, ambiguities, and contradictions in non-functional requirements/quality attributes
Reverse Engineering Software Architecture of legacy code
Refactoring Software Architecture Product Line development/ Product Line Software Architecture Education / Experience: Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g.

Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard. Benefits offered to vary by the contract.

Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter. Military connected talent encouraged to apply. VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals /

Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit http://www.tadpgs.com/candidate-privacy/ or https://pdsdefense.com/candidate-privacy/ The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

  • The California Fair Chance Act
  • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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