Software Engineer | Vehicle Management Systems (Associate or Experienced)

Description

The role is on the flight software team of the experimental systems group, part of the company's defense, space and security business, based in Seal Beach, California.

The work centres on vehicle management systems for advanced aerospace and autonomy platforms, close to flight hardware and mission operations. Associate and experienced engineers are both being hired.

The team wants people who care about safety, reliability and performance and who want to become domain experts in vehicle management.

Responsibilities

• Work with systems, flight software and integration teams to define, review and refine vehicle management software requirements, specifications and system design inputs.
• Develop vehicle management software and help integrate externally built functions.
• Plan and run verification and validation work, including test strategies, objectives, plans, cases and scenarios tied to requirements and compliance needs.
• Set up and maintain hardware, software and network test environments that mirror production conditions.
• Carry out manual and automated testing, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts, and report defects, risks and potential vulnerabilities.
• Investigate and resolve software defects found in testing or in operational use, and feed results back to improve design.
• Build simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments, write test plans and procedures, and create pipelines that check requirements, interfaces and performance.
• Write unit, integration and system tests, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, code reviews and documentation, and produce concise test reports for stakeholders.
• Keep design artifacts, technical specifications, user documentation, test records, metrics and data current, in line with privacy and security standards.
• Apply current and emerging tools and methods to improve software development and test processes.
• Coordinate test and verification work across multifunctional teams, including project management support for test execution and delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• 1+ years of experience with C, C++, Python and/or shell scripts.
• 1+ years of experience working in a UNIX or LINUX environment.
• Experience with application DevOps tools such as GitLab (CI/CD), Git Bash, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins and Artifactory.
• Preferred: Level 3 standing, meaning 5+ years of related work experience or an equivalent mix of education and experience.
• Preferred: Bachelor of Science in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science or computer science with 5+ years of related work experience; or a Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of directly related work experience; or 13+ years of related, relevant experience.
• Preferred: experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS).
• Preferred: experience testing flight-critical systems with simulators and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Preferred: Agile development experience.
• Preferred: ability to find out a customer's organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems and constraints, in order to give effective product support and resolve technical issues.
• Preferred: knowledge of international simulator regulatory standards, data and database elements, simulator motion systems, and the tools and processes used to supply flight simulators.
• Preferred: real-time software architecture and design methods, and the ability to build architectures that meet real-time requirements, characteristics and constraints.
• Preferred: understanding of real-time target environments, including processor and network architectures, communication protocols, simulation frameworks and electrical interfaces.
• Preferred: building, integrating and troubleshooting software components.
• Preferred: knowledge of aircraft systems (avionics, hydraulic, electrical, egress), components (multifunction displays, wing, engine, landing gear, transmission), and loadable and non-loadable software (radar operational programs, inertial navigation programs, operational flight programs).
• Preferred: experience implementing software test frameworks, tools and simulations.
• Preferred: knowledge of internal and external software test frameworks, architectures and industry best practice.
• Preferred: knowledge of software practices (configuration control, change management, problem reporting, design, peer review, testing, T&E), languages, operating systems and computing for lab and flight test systems, real-time and non-real-time, network-centric, monitoring and control.
• Preferred: experience with verification, validation, certification and qualification processes, and the regulations and compliance requirements that govern them.
• Preferred: ability to assess and document test or analysis data to show compliance.
• Preferred: ability to design, develop and run automated software tests, track results, manage test data and use results to raise software quality.
• Preferred: systems thinking, meaning you see how a change in one area affects others and can anticipate future events.

Conditions

Fully onsite at one of the listed locations.

Travel of up to 10% of the time may be required.

Part of selection is a technical coding assessment; not completing it removes you from consideration.

Must satisfy the company's conflict of interest assessment process.

Top Secret clearance must be held and active, and U.S. citizenship is required. A clearance active within the past 24 months counts as active.

Export control rules require a U.S. Person under 22 C.F.R. §120.62 (U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, refugee or asylee).

No visa sponsorship for employment.

Not a safety-sensitive position and not contingent upon program award.

Relocation assistance is not negotiable.

Language requirements: not applicable. Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Shift 1, United States of America.

Drug-free workplace: post-offer applicants and employees may be tested for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP and alcohol when criteria are met under company policy.

Pay depends on experience, qualifications, market and business factors. Summary base ranges: Associate level (Level 2) $106,250 to $143,750; Experienced level (Level 3) $135,150 to $182,850.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay plus variable compensation opportunities.
• Benefits generally include health insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, retirement savings, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away; availability depends on location, hire date and collective bargaining agreements.
• 401(k): the company matches your contributions dollar for dollar up to 10% of eligible pay, with immediate 100% vesting.
• Student Loan Match: eligible enrolled U.S. employees can count qualified student loan payments, along with match-eligible contributions, toward the company match in their 401(k).