Software Engineering Intern

Description

Job Description:

Leidos is a Fortune 500™ company aimed at embracing and solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Through science and technology, Leidos makes the world safer, healthier and more efficient.

Our Civil Group offers an array of exciting career opportunities for the best IT, energy, logistics and engineering professionals.

Our Transportation Solutions Operation delivers cutting-edge research in some of the most exciting technological fields and advances state-of-the-practice solutions in transportation safety. A new era of mobility requires specialized expertise to address paradigm shifts in how we travel and move goods.

We support our customers with:

• Connected and Automated Vehicles
• Aircraft Traffic Planning and Operations
• Human Factors Research
• Analysis, Modeling and Simulation
• Transportation Safety and Operations, and Asset Management
• e-Construction and Accelerated Construction
• Freight Efficiency
• Research Facility Management

Leidos is seeking an Software Engineering Intern who will be a member of a dynamic team working on the Federal Aviation Administration’s En-Route Automation Modernization ERAM) technology, which is the heart of the Next Generation Air Transportation System and the pulse of the National Airspace System helping to advance our transition from a ground-based system of air traffic control to a satellite-based system of air traffic management. ERAM is vital to the future of air navigation, providing the foundational platform required for FAA to enable NextGen solutions, via modernization programs such as System Wide Information Management, Data Communications, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast. ERAM will provide benefits for users and the flying public by increasing air traffic flow.

System functions include:

· RealTime Programming on High Availability Systems

· Multi-threaded programming

· Low Level Operating Systems Customization (RedHat, AIX)

· Low level communication software (TCP-IP, UDP, SCTP)

· Support of Common Services utilized by ERAM Application teams

· System Maintenance Concepts

Basic Qualifications

Working both as a member of a team and independently the successful candidate will be:

Modernizing the AT control system by improving the availability and performance of the ERAM system.

Supporting ERAM as it continues to migrate ERAM from the AIX operating systems to Linux. Detailed knowledge of Linux OS and OS concepts desirable.

Developing and maintaining the FAA air traffic control display software within the object oriented environment (primarily Ada95/C++) on a UNIX/Linux platform.

Performing software development as needed for the ERAM system

Coordinate Solutions with Systems Engineering

Candidates must be enrolled in a degree program or equivalent experience and less than 2 years prior relevant experience.

Your GPA needs to be included on your application and resume.

US Citizenship Requirements

Candidate must be able to obtain an SF-85P Public Trust clearance from the FAA customer.

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We value and support the well-being and mobility of our employees with competitive benefit packages, complementary e-learning training, work-life flexibility, an exciting External Referral Program, and a diverse, inclusive and ethical work place. In fact, in 2020, Leidos was ranked as one of the “World's Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute for the third consecutive year

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