Sensor and mission data processing software for missile warning and space
SciTec builds mission data processing software that turns defense sensor feeds into operational intelligence, centered on OPIR and missile warning. A C++/CMake/Google Test core with Rust, TLA+ and SysML points to safety-critical, formally specified systems, while CUDA and OpenCL adoption signals a push into GPU-accelerated low-latency processing. Hiring is accelerating and skews heavily toward senior and staff engineers, with a secondary security build-out tied to CMMC and NIST 800-171.
SciTec is a Princeton, New Jersey–based defense and space company founded in 1979, operating as part of Firefly Aerospace. It develops sensing and mission data processing systems for U.S. and allied national security customers, supporting missile warning, space domain awareness and multi-domain operations. Its work spans sensor physics, algorithm development, real-time processing, modeling and simulation, instrumentation and field testing. The company employs 201–500 people and hires in the United States.
SciTec builds primarily in C++ with CMake, Google Test, Python, MATLAB, Java and Rust, runs Docker, Podman, Kubernetes and Helm, uses Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, and is adopting CUDA and OpenCL.
Job posts point to OPIR sensor data processing, next-generation missile warning software, a GBRD modernization program, and a MOSA architecture for high-performance data processing applications.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and dominated by engineering, mostly senior and staff level, with additional openings in security, legal, ops, sales and finance, all in the United States.
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