Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our 22,000 employees do the cant be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Qualifications

Required Experience/Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or in a related Engineering or Mathematics field with strong concentration in programming.
• 5-10 years of software development experience
• Proficient in C/C++ or XML, Python, Windows GUI development in an agile development environment
• Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
• Willingness to learn, solve problems, and perform in a dynamic work environment
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis communicating issues and opportunities to government customers

Preferred Skillset:

• Experience translating pseudo code or engineering tools into user-friendly, mature tools
• Experience with workflow automation, requirement verification, and testing automation.
• Experience in XML or Windows GUI development
• Working within a DevSecOps environment, cloud-based testing,
• Coding with imagery or other large data sets
• Understanding of image product format (NITF, MPEG) or image compression (JPEG 2000, H.264),
• Experience writing and maintaining custom scripts to increase work efficiency

Responsibilities

Seeking a motivated SOFTWARE DEVELOPER in support of an independent verification and validation (IV&V) group supporting the image quality and product utility mission. You will be part of a team of highly respected, skilled, and long-standing engineers, scientists, and analysts working side-by-side with the customer. The successful candidate will work as a software developer tasked with developing and updating verification tools to validate against imaging sensor requirements and data processing system performance within the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG). The candidate will:

• Work with staff engineers and scientists to understand workflow and tool needs
• Develop configuration-controlled, verification tools
• Mature engineering scripts, tools, and pseudo code into documented, tested and hardened tools.
• Software and tools develop will be used to verify and validate product visual quality, as well as the accuracy of the support data, from a variety of digital image collection systems that produce Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT). In-house software tools model the NSG architecture and the flow of operational GEOINT data and products. Additionally, engineering code and on-the-fly tools are created to meet the testing and assessment needs that are project specific. Taking existing code and maturing it into user-friendly tools will aid the overall mission and build a tool box to support future work. The developer will work within an existing development team to complete tasks as prioritized by government customers. Good communication and team work is necessary