{"id":1552566,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer","title":"Embedded Software Computer Engineer","company":{"id":2031265,"name":"DCS Corporation","domain":"dcscorp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dcscorp","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Schema","truth_index":null},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Ridgecrest, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":82004,"max":107593,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":107593},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Assembly","optional":false},{"name":"Bitbucket","optional":true},{"name":"C#","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-21T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-05T21:13:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"Salary Range: $82,004 - $107,593\nSeeking 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.\nEssential Job Functions\nSoftware Engineering support for new and evolving projects as well as sustainment of existing programs for F/A-18 Hornet.\nExecute software engineering life-cycle activities in a managed, controlled, and efficient manner consistent with the established organizational processes.\nPerform software engineering duties over the product life cycle environment, encompassing requirements development, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, system integration, and problem investigation.\nParticipate in the technical peer review process to uphold best practices in code, architecture and requirement functionality.\nCommunication 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.\nIntegrate Software with external Software Components from external entities.\nDevelop Software code in Assembly Language within an embedded environment.\nRequired Skills:\nDue to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.\nBachelor'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.\nExcellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.\nSelf-guided, inquisitive, and able to research, learn and work in very large code base to go from problem description to effective solution.\nAbility to troubleshoot and debug issues.\nDesired Skills\nBonus skills/interests: Experience relating to C#, embedded systems and low-level languages.\nExperience with Bitbucket (git), Jira, Confluence, and Assembly.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2013,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T00:51:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":75,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.831,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:mid","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-05T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":107593,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4997,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2031265},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2031265"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdcs-corporation-embedded-software-computer-engineer"}]}