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The MissionSystemsSoftware Engineerwill work on developingsolutions of a real time system environment to provide mission computing support at the center of an autonomousaircraftwith sensor and weapons. This role willworktoestablisha softwarearchitecture for a real time system thatoperatesin a multi-level environmentatreal time. Therolewillrequirework with hardware,softwareand systems teams to come to a consensus design. This role willfocus ondevelopment of new systems and software designs from PDR, CoDR, CDR to lab test, flighttestand fielding.
What you'll do:Serve as a softwaremission systemsengineer for a safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing system aligned with A-GRA and AMS-GRA principles, profiles, interfaces, and data standards.
Define andmaintainthe end-to-end software architecture, including mission applications, platform services, middleware, operating-system interfaces, hardware-abstraction layers, networking, data distribution,componentboundaries, and APIs.
Architect for deterministic real-time performance by addressing scheduling, latency, jitter, synchronization, throughput, resourceutilization, distributed processing, and CPU/GPU/accelerator allocation.
Develop architecture views, interface definitions,data-flowand deployment models, sequence and 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 in collaboration with hardware, FPGA, cybersecurity, safety, systems, integration, and test teams.
Design for mission resilience and assurance through fault detection and isolation, redundancy, graceful degradation, recovery, health monitoring, cybersecurity, airworthiness, certification, and requirements traceability.
Establish engineering practices for concurrency, synchronization, memory and resource management, deterministic execution, interface control, configuration management, and predictablecomponentintegration.
Define and execute verification strategies across HIL/SIL laboratories, simulations, test benches, flight-test environments, and deployed systems using automated, performance, stress, fault-injection, interface, and timing tests.
Maintain technical ownership throughout the system lifecycle by evaluating enabling technologies and supplier designs, analyzing performance, managing technical debt and modernization roadmaps, promoting reuse, and communicating architectural decisions.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
8+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3+ years in software architecture, systems architecture, or technical leadership.
Experience developing embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software systems.
Proficiencyin 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,interprocesscommunication, 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 andmaintaina U.S. Department of Defense security clearance; U.S. citizenship may berequiredfor clearance eligibility.
Experience developing software for autonomousaircraft, unmannedaircraftsystems, avionics, mission computers, robotics, or aerospace and defense platforms.
Experience with A-GRA, AMS-GRA, OMS, UCI, FACE, or other government reference architectures and open-mission-system standards.
Experience integrating autonomy, mission management, command-and-control, sensor processing, communications, navigation, and effector capabilities.
Familiarity with airworthiness, safety-assurance, or certification standards such as DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, or applicable military airworthiness guidance.
Experience with CPU-, GPU-, FPGA-, or accelerator-based heterogeneous computing architectures.
Experience withpublish/subscribemiddleware, quality-of-service controls, high-rate data distribution, precision timing, and distributed time synchronization.
Experience designing cybersecurity controls for embedded or mission systems, including trust boundaries, least privilege, authentication, authorization, secure communications, and software integrity.
Experience with HIL/SIL environments, simulation systems, laboratory integration, flight testing, or operational deployment.
Experience evaluating supplier designs, RTOSs, middleware, computing platforms, or third-party software for architectural compliance and integration readiness.
Active or previously held U.S. Department of Defense Secret clearance.
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