Software Engineer I
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About this role
About Us
At KBR, we deliver science, technology, and engineering solutions that help our customers accomplish their most critical missions.
Join us at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center and help shape the future of Earth science data systems. As part of our mission-driven team, you’ll contribute to projects that make a global impact, supporting research, innovation, and technology that empower scientists and decision-makers worldwide.
Position Overview
KBR needs an Entry-Level Software Engineer in Sioux Falls, SD. KBR works with USGS at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. This team, in collaboration with NASA and the Landsat project, specializes in remote sensing and provides over fifty years of satellite imagery data to global users and science organizations.
Why You’ll Love This Role
- Work on meaningful projects that support Earth science and sustainability
- Collaborate with experienced engineers and mentors who are passionate about innovation
- Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies in software development
- Be part of a team that values curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning
Core Responsibilities
Candidates must have strong technical abilities, excellent communication skills, and a teamwork emphasis. Candidates must also be able to integrate into a highly-skilled Information Technology Team.
- Design and implement tasks required in the development of software products
- Communicate and coordinate activities and technical status with the Systems Engineer, Software Engineers, and other Project team members, as appropriate
- Ensure all software activities are conducted in accordance with standards and best practices
- Support software planning including requirements definition, activity identification, and estimating
- Perform and document preliminary and detailed design of software components
- Implement software from detailed designs
- Develop and conduct software testing
- Document the testing effort through generation of test plans, procedures, and reports
- Submit, analyze, and manage configuration change requests in accordance with Configuration Management (CM) processes
- Participate in document and code reviews
Education & Skills
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
Experience
Former job experience is not required for this entry-level position. Internships or projects related to data ingest, image processing, satellite ground systems and/or cloud computing are a plus.
Required Skills
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience using Python and C/C++
- Experience interfacing with database systems
- Relational database experience
- Unix/Linux experience
- Experience with change management tools such as Git
Desired Skills
- Postgres experience
- Perl
- Java
- Experience with remote sensing, digital image/signal processing techniques, and basic geography concepts such as map projections
- Experience with AWS Cloud Services (S3, EC2, EKS, ECR, Lambda)
- Experience with CI/CD
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence for software code generation and documentation
Special Requirements
- Three years of continuous residency in the U.S. for issuance of a Government Security credential
- Ability to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation for facility access
Experience and/or Education in lieu of these qualifications will be reviewed for applicability to meet these requirements.