Hybrid Technical Lead, Electronic Warfare Software Engineering

at Research Innovations Incorporated

• Job title: Technical Lead, Electronic Warfare Software Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States

About the role

• Technical Lead providing hands-on software engineering leadership for electronic warfare systems. Collaborating with teams and guiding technical direction with a strong focus on reliability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for established EW software systems, owning architecture, design decisions, and technical roadmap.
• Lead sustainment, modernization, and incremental enhancement of existing mission-critical systems.
• Balance new feature development with technical debt reduction, refactoring, and performance optimization.
• Design, implement, and review software in Java, C/C++, and Python, remaining hands-on throughout the development lifecycle.
• Guide engineering teams through architecture decisions, trade-off analysis, and implementation approaches.
• Collaborate with Systems, Hardware, Test, and Operations teams to ensure reliable integration and deployment.
• Decompose operational and sustainment requirements into actionable, prioritized work aligned with agile execution.
• Troubleshoot complex production and field issues, including performance degradation and integration failures.
• Define and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and sustainment artifacts.
• Ensure systems meet security, scalability, reliability, and mission requirements over long operational lifecycles.
• Communicate technical status, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders, customers, and leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, with 10+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Technical Lead or senior engineer on complex software systems.
• Significant experience sustaining and evolving established systems, not just greenfield development.
• Strong software design and architecture experience for long-lived, mission-critical applications.
• Hands-on development experience in Java, C/C++, and Python.
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers.
• Experience supporting systems through full lifecycle operations, including sustainment, upgrades, and defect resolution.
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex technical issues in production or operational environments.
• Familiarity with agile development practices in environments with legacy and modern components.
• Experience working across distributed teams with limited oversight.
• Background in defense, EW, radar, communications, or other real-time/mission systems.

Benefits

• flexible work schedules
• health insurance coverage
• paid time off
• 401k with a company match
• paid parental leave
• access to wellness programs and much more