Embedded Software Computer Engineer

DCS Corporation • Bachelor's Degree • C# • Assembly • 3 days ago
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$82k – $108k per year
Location
In office (Ridgecrest)
Seniority
Junior · 2+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 21, 2026.

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DCS Corporation

DCS Corporation is an employee-owned engineering and technical services company headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, supporting the Department of Defense and other national security customers. It works in modeling and simulation including AFSIM, electronic warfare, mission planning, unmanned systems, test and evaluation, artificial intelligence and weapons systems development from more than 15 US offices, and it recently acquired ARCTOS. Hiring covers program and acquisition managers, aircraft integration and electronic warfare engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity and intelligence analysts and laboratory and logistics staff, often with security clearances.
dcscorp.com • HQ: Alexandria, United States • 51-200 employees
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Salary Range: $82,004 - $107,593

Seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team supporting ongoing F/A-18 aircraft software projects. These are multi-year initiatives for the U.S. Marine Corps and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers.

Essential Job Functions

Software Engineering support for new and evolving projects as well as sustainment of existing programs for F/A-18 Hornet.

Execute software engineering life-cycle activities in a managed, controlled, and efficient manner consistent with the established organizational processes.

Perform software engineering duties over the product life cycle environment, encompassing requirements development, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, system integration, and problem investigation.

Participate in the technical peer review process to uphold best practices in code, architecture and requirement functionality.

Communication skills required, both verbally and in writing, to interface with an Integrated Product team that includes Systems and Software Engineers as well as technical leadership in both government and contractor roles.

Integrate Software with external Software Components from external entities.

Develop Software code in Assembly Language within an embedded environment.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, with 2 plus years of related experience. Other engineering disciplines with strong software experience will be considered.

Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.

Self-guided, inquisitive, and able to research, learn and work in very large code base to go from problem description to effective solution.

Ability to troubleshoot and debug issues.

Desired Skills

Bonus skills/interests: Experience relating to C#, embedded systems and low-level languages.

Experience with Bitbucket (git), Jira, Confluence, and Assembly.

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