Senior Engineer, Mission Systems Software

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end software architecture for safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing systems.
• Architect deterministic real-time performance, including scheduling, latency, jitter, synchronization, throughput, resource utilization, and distributed processing.
• Define architecture views, interfaces, data flows, deployment models, timing diagrams, resource budgets, trade studies, and technical decision records.
• Integrate sensors, effectors, communications, navigation, autonomy, mission management, command-and-control, data-processing, and vehicle services.
• Design mission resilience and assurance capabilities including fault detection, redundancy, graceful degradation, recovery, health monitoring, cybersecurity, and requirements traceability.
• Establish engineering practices for concurrency, synchronization, memory management, deterministic execution, interface control, configuration management, and component integration.
• Define and execute verification across HIL/SIL laboratories, simulations, test benches, flight-test environments, and deployed systems.
• Provide technical ownership across the system lifecycle, including supplier evaluations, performance analysis, technical debt management, modernization roadmaps, and architectural communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 8 years of professional software-engineering experience, including at least 3 years in software architecture, systems architecture, or technical leadership.
• Experience developing embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software systems.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or another strongly typed systems-programming language.
• Strong understanding of real-time software principles including scheduling, concurrency, synchronization, latency, jitter, memory management, and deterministic execution.
• Experience with embedded operating systems or RTOSs, middleware, interprocess communication, networking, and data-distribution technologies.
• Experience defining software architectures, APIs, interface-control documents, data flows, deployment models, and system resource budgets.
• Experience integrating software with hardware, sensors, communications systems, navigation systems, effectors, or other mission-system components.
• Experience supporting software through requirements development, design reviews, implementation, integration, verification, system test, and deployment.
• Working knowledge of systems-engineering processes, requirements management, traceability, configuration management, and verification and validation.
• Ability to analyze system performance using instrumentation, telemetry, traces, profiling, network captures, timing data, and resource-utilization measurements.
• Strong cross-functional technical leadership, problem-solving, written communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance; U.S. citizenship may be required for clearance eligibility.
• Preferred qualifications include experience with autonomous aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, avionics, mission computers, robotics, aerospace and defense platforms, A-GRA, AMS-GRA, OMS, UCI, FACE, DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, heterogeneous computing, publish/subscribe middleware, cybersecurity controls, HIL/SIL environments, flight testing, supplier evaluations, and an active or previously held DoD Secret clearance.

Benefits

• Full-time regular employee offer package includes bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
• Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
• Employment offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• The role is a full-time regular employee position.