Simulations Software Programmer

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide technical design and programming for enhancements to combat system capabilities, unit behaviors, terrain interactions, data post-processing, graphical user interface, etc., for the FireSim XXI software. Two programmers are required.

Provide written documentation of changes to source code, required to maintain FireSim XXI software. Written documentation will conform to established FireSim XXI documentation file formats and will be briefed to the FireSim XXI Configuration Control Board (CCB) when required.

Maintain proficient operator-level knowledge of Fires Simulations and Fires tactical systems to include AFATDS and FireSim XXI to provide operational support to the field for the following experiments and demonstrations: AFWE, AFC Experimentation Campaign, fires integration and others as addressed by the AFC Experiment Guidance but not to exceed ten experiments each fiscal year.

Provide networking expertise to integrate and maintain FireSim XXI interoperability with tactical devices or other simulations in Distributed Interactive Simulation or High-Level Architecture experimentation, training and demonstration environments.

Provide FireSim XXI technical support to experiments, exercises, fielding, and demonstrations conducted or supported by the Fires Battle Lab.

Requirements (Minimum Experience, Education, Skills, Knowledge and Licensure):

Have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or higher.

Have extensive training within the following subject areas: computer science, mathematics, statistics, object-oriented programming, data structures and/or algorithm design.

Have demonstrated experience in abstracting complex problems into efficient, reusable, and robust software code.

Be able to obtain a military driver’s license.

Have experience with Agile software coding practices for code development and testing purposes especially within the realm of military simulations (scenarios, force structures, fire systems, sensor systems, munitions, etc.).

Demonstrate experience using software testing and configuration management practices.

Demonstrate experience applying advanced programming techniques to include, but not limited to, object- oriented design, advanced data structures and file structures, numerical algorithms, and data search and retrieval techniques.

Demonstrate experience integrating simulations into distributed simulation environments, especially within Distributed Interactive Simulations (DIS) architectures and High-Level Architecture (HLA) environments working with Federation Object Models (FOMs).

Demonstrated experience programming with object-oriented usage of C and C++ Programming Languages and demonstrated experience in usage of Linux Operating Systems.

Have demonstrated experience with programming large software applications, especially within stochastic, event driven, entity-based simulations such as FireSim XXI.

Possess, at a minimum, a secret clearance.

Full-time