Computer Scientist V

JT4, LLC provides engineering and technical support to multiple western test ranges for the U.S. Air Force, Space Force, and Navy under the Joint Range Technical Services Contract, better known as J-Tech II. JT4 develops and maintains realistic, integrated test and training environments and prepares our nation's war-fighting aircraft, weapons systems, and aircrews for today's missions and tomorrow's global challenges.

JOB SUMMARY -- ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/DUTIES

A Computer Scientist V provides senior-level software and systems engineering services to a variety of projects or customer efforts and has a critical impact on future business and/or existing relationships.

Employee will be responsible for the following functions/duties:

• Strong experience in C#/.NET geared towards desktop application development. 
• Experience in creating highly customized WPF front-end designs, to build and maintain high-performance applications that handle large sets of data to provide a polished, intuitive user experience.
• Works across the full application stack: data ingestion, databases, APIs, processing, business logic, and UI/UX. 
• Contributes to modernizing existing tools, improving application performance, and build reusable UI-components. 
• Team is embedded directly with active customers. 
• Function as a technical lead, technical manager, or system architect of multiple projects at the department level, as directed by management
• Purse new business efforts, lead proposal efforts, and act as a technical consultant
• Direct and provide guidance to technical staff on complex projects
• Direct/participate in planning, design, and implementation of work within functional scope
• Work independently of direct supervision in pursuit of goals defined by management
• Develop the design of system/software and associated design documentation
• Represent the company to customers, co-contractors, competitors, or other elements with JT4
• Implement design through software coding or hardware and document the design implementation
• Maintain high visibility to the customer and JT4 senior management
• Provide or facilitate the synthesis between multiple technical and management disciplines within the company and those provided by coworkers
• Establish and maintain positive customer relations
• Perform other job-related duties, as required

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIREMENTS -- EDUCATION, TECHNICAL AND WORK EXPERIENCE

One of the following educational requirements must be met for this position:

1. A bachelor's degree in an associated discipline and a minimum of fourteen years of related experience
2. A master's degree in an associated discipline and a minimum of ten years of experience
3. A PhD in an associated discipline and a minimum of eight years of experience

In addition, a Computer Scientist V must possess the following qualifications:

• Comfortable working both independently and collaborating with technical and non-technical users directly. 
• Demonstrated expertise with computer-based systems and applications
• Senior-level programing skills in languages used for job-specific programming tasks
• Senior-level expertise in the application of industry standard hardware and software design and documentation techniques
• Extensive knowledge of systems engineering and software development lifecycles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent planning/organizational skills
• Ability to work under deadlines