Embedded Ground Software Avionics Engineer 3
About The Position
At ULA, as an Embedded Ground Software Avionics Engineer 3 you are responsible for maintaining and developing new software / hardware products, implementing modern design principles and concepts, resolving complex technical problems, and providing solutions which are innovative and ingenious. You will work with a highly collaborative team in an Agile environment embracing a “fail-fast” mentality (fail fast, fail often, react quickly and learn from every failure). You will engage with Product Owners, Technology Architects, QA and/or Automation team members on cross-functional activities to design, develop, and test cutting-edge software solutions. You will be expected to understand and coach technical concepts to those around you. In this position, you will primarily support the Ground Software Avionics team, providing both technical leadership and hands-on development to deliver operational and enabling capabilities to meet hard real-time requirements for command and control of Avionics Flight Control hardware and EGSE Systems. You will help ensure delivery of mission critical software used during launch vehicle manufacturing, preflight test, and launch countdown to prep our rockets for flight. You will help design, develop, operate and maintain software and firmware components and computing systems software to be applied to and integrated with engineering, scientific and manufacturing systems. Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products such as display systems, mechanical control systems and electrical control systems that are directly used to operate all our rockets. You will interface with customers, suppliers, application users and other technical and support personnel to produce high quality software that meets stakeholder needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical / Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Minimum of 4+ years of work experience
- Experience as an agile Product Owner or Project Management
- Experience presenting hardware / software / system architecture and designs to both internal audiences as well as external customers
- Expertise with Real Time Linux-based operating systems
- Expertise with development and troubleshooting of timing critical Hardware and Software systems
- Expertise in authoring, executing and review of Software products and their implementation
- Experience with object-oriented designs and languages
- Experience with C/C++
- Experience with Software Configuration Management practices including Agile Methodologies, Test Driven Development (TDD), Software Design Principles, Configuration Management practices and tools such as Git, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Technical leadership experience in an Engineering environment
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined in ITAR 22 CFR 120.62
Nice To Haves
- Experience with designing and architecting software for complex solutions
- Experience with Python
Responsibilities
- Maintaining and developing new software / hardware products
- Implementing modern design principles and concepts
- Resolving complex technical problems
- Providing innovative and ingenious solutions
- Working with a highly collaborative team in an Agile environment
- Engaging with Product Owners, Technology Architects, QA and/or Automation team members on cross-functional activities to design, develop, and test cutting-edge software solutions
- Understanding and coaching technical concepts to those around you
- Providing technical leadership and hands-on development to deliver operational and enabling capabilities to meet hard real-time requirements for command and control of Avionics Flight Control hardware and EGSE Systems
- Ensuring delivery of mission critical software used during launch vehicle manufacturing, preflight test, and launch countdown
- Designing, developing, operating and maintaining software and firmware components and computing systems software
- Applying appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the system development life cycle
- Generating engineering applications and products such as display systems, mechanical control systems and electrical control systems
- Interfacing with customers, suppliers, application users and other technical and support personnel
Benefits
- 401(k) match plus an additional employer contribution
- Discretionary annual incentive bonus for eligible employees
- Generous paid time off
- Flexible work environments
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
