Principal Engineer-Software Development

Position Details

• The position is onsite in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• The position is with Collins Aerospace, part of RTX.

Company and Role Overview

What You Will Do

• Lead embedded software design, development, integration, and verification for aerospace systems.
• Provide technical guidance, architectural direction, mentoring, and coaching to software teams.
• Decompose system requirements into software high-level requirements and drive technical reviews.
• Develop real-time application software, device drivers, communication interfaces, and protocol implementations.
• Perform debugging, performance optimization, root cause analysis, and corrective action support.
• Support CI/CD implementation, automated build and test workflows, configuration management, and releases.
• Ensure compliance with aerospace software processes, requirements traceability, verification, certification, reviews, and audits.
• Collaborate with systems, verification, hardware, quality, and program teams in Agile development activities.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Minimum 12 years of industry experience in a safety-critical domain, preferably aerospace, with embedded software lifecycle experience using DO-178C processes.
• Aerospace or avionics software development experience is required.
• Knowledge of DO-178C and certification processes is required.
• Experience with DOORS or Polarion, or similar requirements management tools, is required.
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent DevOps tools is required.
• Knowledge of software verification, regression testing, structural coverage, static analysis, and software quality processes is required.
• Exposure to embedded systems and board bring-up activities is required.
• A bachelor's or master's degree is required in one of the listed engineering, computer science, or information technology disciplines.
• Strong Python programming experience is required.

Learning and Work Style

• The role involves technical leadership, systems thinking, analytical debugging, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, customer focus, and quality focus.

Benefits

• Benefits include transportation, meal coupons or vouchers, insurance coverage, annual vacation and sick leave, an employee scholar program, work-life balance support, car lease, pension, leave travel allowance, and fuel or maintenance support.