Principal Engineer-Software Development

Position

Software engineering leadership

• Lead design, development, integration and verification of embedded aerospace software.
• Provide technical guidance and architectural direction to development teams.
• Decompose system requirements into software high-level requirements.
• Drive requirements, design and code reviews and technical decisions.
• Mentor engineers and support estimation, planning, risk management and technical problem-solving.

Development and delivery

• Develop and maintain embedded and real-time application software and low-level peripheral and communication-interface drivers.
• Develop software for CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC 429 or equivalent protocols.
• Debug, optimize performance and perform root-cause analysis of complex software issues.
• Conduct impact analysis and support corrective and preventive actions for field and customer issues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated build, test and deployment workflows, configuration management and releases.
• Develop Python tools for automation, testing, data analysis and productivity.

Process and collaboration

• Ensure compliance with aerospace software processes and standards and support traceability, verification and certification deliverables.
• Participate in software lifecycle reviews and audits.
• Collaborate with Systems, Verification, Hardware, Quality and Program teams.
• Participate in Agile planning, reviews, retrospectives and backlog activities and drive continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• At least 12 years of industry experience in a safety-critical domain; aerospace is preferred.
• Experience with embedded software lifecycle processes in accordance with DO-178C and aerospace or avionics software development.
• Knowledge of DO-178C, certification processes, software verification, regression testing and structural coverage.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS or Polarion.
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab CI or equivalent DevOps tools.
• Experience with static analysis tools and software quality processes; exposure to embedded systems and board bring-up.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or a listed related discipline.
• Strong Python programming experience.

Benefits

• Benefits listed include transportation, meal coupons or vouchers, life, health and accident insurance, annual vacation and sick leave, employee scholarships, work-life balance, car lease, pension scheme and other allowances.

Hiring checks

• India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.