Aerospace Verification Engineer

Neon Aerospace•Irvine, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Neon Aero is seeking an Aerospace Verification Engineer to own the technical architecture, build-out, and operation of the HIL environments used to verify Neon Aero's flight-critical actuator control software. This is a Staff-level individual contributor role for an engineer who can set technical direction across the company through their own work and influence, and who is equally comfortable writing architecture documents and debugging timing on a real-time target. In this role, you will build the environment that generates certification credit evidence for Neon Aero's flight-critical software. Your architecture, tooling, and rigor will directly determine whether that evidence is traceable, repeatable, configuration controlled, and defensible in front of a DER or certification authority. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of systems architecture, hands-on lab work, and certification rigor.

Requirements

10+ years in embedded or aerospace systems, including at least 5 years designing or leading HIL or systems integration lab environments.
Direct experience with DO-178C verification objectives and producing evidence that has passed certification authority or DER review.
Hands-on experience with at least one real-time test platform and its Python or scripting API.
Strong Python skills, including designing frameworks and APIs used by other engineers.
Understanding of motor control fundamentals sufficient to specify and validate a real-time motor model.
Clear technical writing and the ability to drive technical decisions across teams without formal authority.

Nice To Haves

Experience with dual-processor architectures, FPGA-based signal emulation, or flight control actuation.

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture, build-out, and operation of the HIL environments used to verify Neon Aero's flight-critical actuator control software.
Build the environment that generates certification credit evidence for Neon Aero's flight-critical software.
Set technical direction across the company through their own work and influence.
Write architecture documents.
Debug timing on a real-time target.
Ensure evidence is traceable, repeatable, configuration controlled, and defensible in front of a DER or certification authority.