Principal Engineer-Software Development

Role overview

Workplace

• The position is onsite at the Collins Aerospace Bengaluru-Northgate location in Karnataka, India.

Core responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, integration, and verification of embedded aerospace software.
• Provide architecture direction, technical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to software development teams.
• Decompose system requirements into software high-level requirements and drive requirements, design, code, and technical reviews.
• Develop embedded applications, low-level device drivers, and communication interfaces for protocols including CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, and ARINC 429.
• Debug complex software issues, optimize performance, perform root cause analysis, and support corrective and preventive actions.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Develop Python tools for automation, testing, data analysis, and productivity improvements.
• Support configuration management, releases, traceability, verification, certification deliverables, lifecycle reviews, and audits.
• Collaborate with systems, verification, hardware, quality, and program teams and participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Support backlog grooming, feature decomposition, effort estimation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of industry experience in a safety-critical domain, preferably aerospace.
• Experience with embedded software life cycles in accordance with DO-178C processes.
• Aerospace or avionics software development experience and knowledge of DO-178C certification processes.
• Experience with DOORS or Polarion and with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.
• Knowledge of software verification, regression testing, structural coverage, static analysis, and software quality processes.
• Exposure to embedded systems and board bring-up activities.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, electronics and communication engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, or a listed related discipline.
• Strong Python programming experience.

Benefits

• Benefits include transportation, meal coupons or vouchers, group life, health, and personal accident insurance.
• The package includes vacation and sick leave, employee scholar programs, work-life balance programs, car lease, national pension, LTA, and fuel or driver benefits.

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