Senior Software Engineer - OMS at Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$120,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Fort Worth, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on developing, integrating, and testing software for a military aircraft platform using the Open Mission Systems (OMS) architecture. Day-to-day work centers on C++ development in Linux, middleware and data distribution (including pub/sub and DDS), service-oriented design, and interface definition. The role suits an experienced software engineer comfortable working both independently and within multi-site teams on safety- and mission-critical avionics systems, with an active Secret clearance required.
Senior level · 5+ years · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,221 (middle half $107,984–$167,709). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role can be performed at either Fort Worth, TX or Palmdale, CA; the primary CBSA is reported as Dallas-Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX) since it is listed first and aligns with the company's headquarters region.
Compensation is listed as $120,000–$160,000 annually plus bonus eligibility.
An active Secret clearance is explicitly required as a hard gate.
OMS (Open Mission Systems) architecture and development, DDS/pub-sub middleware, service-oriented/event-driven design, service contracts, ICD development, and mission-level simulation/integration testing are all listed under Basic Requirements and treated as hard gates. DDS is the named middleware standard; pub/sub is the architectural pattern it implements.
ICD development and data modeling are combined in the posting; 'Interface Control Document (ICD) development' is used as the canonical skill name to avoid conflating it with general data modeling.
Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket) are listed under Preferred and emitted as a single skill with alternatives, since they are interchangeable Atlassian suite tools satisfying the same collaboration/documentation requirement.
MOSA (Modular Open Systems Approach) is a methodology/standard rather than a named technology tool and is omitted per extraction rules; FACE technical standards are retained as a named standard.
Service-oriented and event-driven design, service contracts, and mission-level simulation/integration testing are architectural/methodology requirements rather than named tools and are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The posting notes 'Remote work opportunities based on role' in the benefits section, but the Basic Requirements explicitly state '100% onsite' — remote is set to false.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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