C++ Software Developer - Precision Fires
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SAIC seeks a C++ Software Developer to support its Precision Fires team at the Aviation and Missile Center, onsite at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The developer will design and develop embedded software for military systems across the full software lifecycle, supporting new and legacy systems and working with customers and cross-functional organizations.
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Description
SAIC has immediate need for a C++ Software Developer to join our Precision Fires team supporting the Aviation and Missile Center located in Huntsville, AL onsite at Redstone Arsenal .
Responsibilities and Duties:
The candidate will be responsible for design and development of embedded software for military systems. The candidate will perform development activities for the full life cycle of a software program.
Duties may include requirements analysis, design, coding, integration, test, documentation, and support. The candidate will also participate in software team meetings, hardware and software design reviews, and technical interchange meetings. The software engineering process also empowers the candidate to work with Cyber, Safety, Operations, and Test organizations to deliver high quality working software. The candidates will work in a team environment, with well-defined goals, supporting both new and legacy embedded systems. The candidate is able to receive timely feedback on software implementation by working directly with the customer, ensuring Agility and delivering a software product that fills immediate needs.
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors and five (5) years’ experience; Additional six (6) years’ experience can be considered in lieu of degree (per contract vehicle).
Clearance Requirements:
- Must possess an active Secret security clearance; US Citizenship required.
Required Skills:
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C/C++ and other Object Oriented Languages.
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Agile Development Experience, specifically Scrum.
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Continuous Integration and Automation.
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OO programming and design, including writing unit tests.
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Microsoft AzureDevOps.
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Experience with Git, SVN.
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Linux.
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MS Visual Studio.
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618158
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–120K/yr
- Alabama median$107–210K/yr343 salary ranges
- US median$134–215K/yr32,980 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $100K, is 34% below the Alabama median midpoint ($151K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Alabama.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 463 open Software Engineer jobs in Alabama and 41,311 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (33,552 postings).
- Education
- 14,305 of the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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