Torch Technologies
Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL with over 1200 employee-owners. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!
Torch Technologies, a 100% Employee-owned company, is seeking a talented Geospatial Data Visualization & UI/UX Software Engineer with experience in both frontend and backend User Interface design and ability to visualize and navigate large scale datasets such as showing a heatmap over a city map. Expertise in programming skills is necessary for languages including C++20, JavaScript with Node-API. Torch is seeking candidates with these qualities and experience that work well with a multidiscipline team. Candidate will work directly with customers supporting the Technology Development Directorate. Candidate must be able to work in person daily at the Redstone Arsenal located in Huntsville Alabama. Candidate should be trustworthy, dependable, and self-motivated, eager to overcome challenges and solve problems. Previous experience working within a DoD environment is a plus but not required.
As a Geospatial Data Visualization & UI/UX Software Engineer your duties will include the following, but are not limited to:
- Designs, develops troubleshoots and analyzes software programs for computer-based systems.
- Performs systems modeling, simulation, and analysis. Designs and develops compilers, assemblers, utility programs and operating systems.
- Advises hardware design engineers on machine characteristics that affect software systems, such as storage capacity, processing speed and input/output requirements.
- As required, provides inputs for documentation of new or existing programs.
- Excludes those whose primary responsibilities are in applications programming.
Job Requirements:
- US Citizenship.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
- 2 years applicable software design engineering experience. Relevant graduate degrees will be given preference.
- Proficient in C++20 software development.
- Proficient in JavaScript software development.
- Proficient in User Interface design.
- Experience in graphically visualizing data.
- Experience in Node-API.
- Experience in NodeJS and Electron.
- Ability to maintain and obtain a DoD security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Working in high-performing/mission-oriented organizations reliant upon the implementation of modeling and simulation.
- Experience in working with MapLibre.
- Working knowledge of geospatial coordinate systems like WGS 84, and UTM.
- Software development, architectures, frameworks, prototyping and design.
- Scripting languages like Python for searching datasets.
- Source control repositories such as Git and Gitlab.
- C++ build systems including CMake.
- Linux and Windows development.
- Experience with Agile development processes.
Schedule: M-F; 8-5
Work Location: Customer- site
Travel: Yes, 0-10%
Relocation Assistance Available: No
Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract: No
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Benefits:
Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent, comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation, 401(k) match and safe-harbor contribution, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts, EAP, education assistance, paid time off, and holidays.
Applying to Torch Technologies:
Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at Torch Technologies is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Torch Technologies, Inc. participates in E-Verify.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Careers Link as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to [email protected]. Thank you for your interest in Torch Technologies.
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Founded in October 2002, Torch is a 100% employee-owned business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.
Our commitment to our employees results in a retention rate well over 90% and helps ensure our customers experience a stable work force. Our outstanding fringe benefits package helps recruit, retain and sustain our workforce.
Torch has received national and local recognition for its business performance, workplace environment, and ethical business practices. In 2021, Torch was named one of the Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services for the sixth year by Great Place to Work. Torch was also recognized as the 2021 ESOP Company of the Year by the New South Chapter of The ESOP Association for a second time. Torch was a recipient of the 2021 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award by the DCSA. Bloomberg Government also listed Torch in its annual “Top 200” for the fifth year. In 2020, Torch became the only four-time recipient of the Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award for Business Ethics in the North Alabama region. Great Place to Work named Torch one of the country’s Best Workplaces for Parents, and Great Place to Work and Fortune named Torch one of the country’s Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2020. Torch was also ranked on the Inc. 5000 list for the fourteenth consecutive year in 2020. Washington Technology listed Torch in its “Top 100” Government Contractors ranking for the sixth consecutive year. Torch was also selected for a 2020 Colorado Springs Business Journal “Best in Business” award. In 2019, Torch was ranked on the Entrepreneur 360 list for the third consecutive year. In 2018, Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine named Torch a Best Medium Workplace for the third consecutive year. Torch was also named a winner of the 2018 Best Places to Work in Huntsville award for the fifth time. In 2016, Torch was named one of America’s Best Small Companies by Forbes.
