Who we are:
Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.
About this role:
This role will join our energetic and expanding team to support system architecture design, implement complex software solutions, and ensure project features are met. Team-focused development efforts can include system design, database design, GUI development, testing, system analysis and functional testing. We expect this software engineer to bring big ideas and energy to the team. Must be a nimble self-starter who is passionate about advanced systems programming and backend architecture, with the ability to think creatively and propose innovative solutions in high=performance C++ environments.
What you’ll do:
- Participate in a team of software engineers developing and implementing technical projects from software/web applications to enterprise-level solutions
- Design high level architectures; tradeoff analysis and selection of technologies while building consensus around them
- Contribute to the Software Development Life Cycle for multiple projects
- Contribute to functional and operational level software test events
- Input for system and network design and configuration
- Input for corporate software development process and areas of expertise
- Work as a team throughout the design process, supporting sprint planning sessions, code reviews, and scrums
- Provide input for project planning and proposals
- Support test planning, environment, and execution
- Implement high level designs in robust, maintainable software
- Create modules, install software on target nodes, and deploy configuration file
- Design and develop real-time data applications such as dashboard visualization, report generation, and date review applications)
- Implement test scripts
- Troubleshoot and address bugs and issues
- Support documentation such as system description documents and test reports
- Participate and provide guidance during on-going code reviews
- Implement security requirements onto system components
- Design and develop data polling/data pushing architectures
- Design and develop client-side/server-side/database integration
- Use Fuse CM system software repository (Git, TRAC, Jenkins, Peer Reviews)
- Work closely with the operational Project Management team to maintain successful development sprints and stay on schedule
Requirements
- Experience with databases: SQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS
- Understanding of security protocols and certifications such as Security + and CompTIA
- Demonstrated use of open-source technologies and protocols
- Experience with Linux administration: RHEL, Bash/sh scripting
- Hands on experience with Linux OS
- Experience with build tools (npm, gulp, sass, less, webpack, rollup)
- Willingness and ability to obtain US Secret Clearance. We can answer any questions regarding this process and walk you through the steps when obtaining it
- B.S. in an engineering field (Computer, Software, Math, Physics, Electrical, etc.)
- 7-12 years of experience in software development
- Understanding of open source technologies and protocols
- Experience with C/C++, Python, and open source libraries
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Understanding of GIT
- U.S. citizenship
Your own unique talents! If you meet some requirements of this position but not 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d be a great fit for this role based on your specific characteristics that align with our values and goals
Nice to have:
- Master’s degree in an engineering field
- Basic or higher understanding of radio and RF technology: FFTs, spectrum analysis, spectrograms, RF propagation, software defined radio (SDR), waveforms, frequency propagation, spectrograms, power spectral density
- Working knowledge of networking protocols and Linux DevOps processes including writing Python and Bash deployment scripts and setting up automated testing and Gitlab
- Experience in agile, professional SW development environments utilizing revision control, test driven development, and continuous integration
More about Fuse:
Founded in 2010, Fuse is a veteran-owned, rapidly growing small business. Our San Diego-based company has earned recognition as an emerging leader in airborne, maritime, and ground networking. Placing the warfighter at the center of every design process, Fuse delivers intuitive, agile, and resilient products that go beyond national security requirements—providing lasting utility and game-changing results. We take pride in our brilliant and talented team as well as our dynamic environment and collaborative, creative, environment. We build cutting-edge hardware and software products that solve complex national security challenges for our warfighters at the tactical edge.
Salary Range: $120,000 - $155,000
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Employee coverage is fully funded; a portion of dependents' coverage is funded as well
- 11 paid Federal Holidays
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Date of hire through second year: 10 days/year (accrued)
- After two years: unlimited
- 40 hours of paid sick leave per year
- 401k with employer matching
- Annual bonuses
- Cell phone reimbursement: $100/month
Top Skills
What We Do
We believe our country’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines deserve to be equipped with systems that enhance their competitive advantage against threats and meet rigorous demands of operational environments.
Fuse is a leading supplier of innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions for U.S. defense agencies that improve the sharing of information among warfighters distributed throughout airborne, maritime, and ground environments.
Warfighter-focused design and engineering drives the development of Fuse products and solutions. Technology, mission, and user experience are all considered when designing and developing new products – and this is where Fuse excels. Our proven virtualized network systems, modular tactical edge virtual network, and gateway products go beyond national security requirements, providing lasting utility and game-changing results for our NAVAIR, NAVWAR, USAF, and other U.S. defense clients.
We know that in today’s geopolitically charged environment the fight will not necessarily be won by the side with the most advanced technology or weapons. Instead, it will be won by the side with the most current, accurate, and comprehensible data. Fuse brings together expert engineers and defense operations experts in a collaborative environment to deliver game-changing solutions that enable tactical edge victories in the modern era.
