Frontend WPF Software Engineer

Job ID: 2611491

Location: Huntsville, AL, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-16

Category: Software

Subcategory: SW Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Interim_Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

Program Overview

SAIC is seeking a Frontend WPF Software Engineer in Huntsville, AL. The Network, System Integration and Test Environment (NSITE) is a government owned, managed, and developed software suite. NSITE is used by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Joint Services, and numerous labs in support of continued testing of systems employed for defense of the United States and our Allies. The NSITE software provides data collection, situational awareness, and analysis capabilities to a wide range of users who benefit from NSITE's ability to act as an independent third-party truth teller. The NSITE team has in-depth experience in Tactical Data Links (TDL), Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Test, Enterprise Information Technology, Software and Systems Engineering and Information Assurance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining the NSITE software application.
• Work on an agile development team where success is defined by the ability to understand your path forward, effectively communicate that path, and complete the task inherent to that path in a timely matter.
• Communicate with leadership and the customer to ensure a common understanding of requirements.
• Document your work for the benefit of your teammates, the user, leadership, and posterity.
• Identify and solve challenging problems by writing performant, clean, and practical code.
  
  

Qualifications

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent and five (5) years' experience working with Software Design and Development; Additional six (6) years' experience can be considered in lieu of degree (per contract vehicle).
  
  

Clearance Requirements

• Must possess an active Interim Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance; ship required.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Proficient in C#, and in Microsoft .NET
• Proficient in WPF with MVVM patterns
• Ability to design and build an intuitive User Interface (UI)
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, including Agile methodologies
• Ability to analyze a requirement, generate a design, and produce efficient, robust, and testable software
• Ability to understand, and evaluate WPF / C# code and develop corresponding unit test(s)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with WPF based control sets such as DevExpress, Telerik, or Infragistics
• Understanding of and experience with secure programming techniques.
• Knowledge of tactical and simulation data links (specifically Link 16, JREAP, DIS, VMF, CMF and XML).
• Experience working with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Experience with using Git version control and Gitlab as software management tools.
• Currently have an Information Assurance Technical certification (CompTia A , Net , or Sec ) or the ability to obtain one
  
  

Travel Required: Less than 10% annually.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .