Senior UAS Software Engineer
About The Position
Airbus Helicopters, Inc. is seeking an autonomous, forward-thinking Senior UAS Software Engineer to lead the development of the embedded flight software, ground control stations, and simulators powering the next generation of commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). This role involves owning the software lifecycle, architecting new features, and driving engineering excellence across the entire development workflow. The Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor Program offers one of the most sophisticated small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS) with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), capable of day or night intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) operations on land and at sea.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s of Science degree in an engineering field, or equivalent technical degree and experience.
- 10 years experience in software development, design and engineering. (C++, C#)
- Demonstrated expertise in understanding and documenting advanced technical, engineering, and scientific concepts.
- Proven experience writing clean, maintainable, reusable code using engineering standard methodologies.
- Knowledge in working with software, including Microsoft Office, Git, DITA, XML, and Jira.
- Authorized to work in the US without current or future need for visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize and design new software features.
- Gather requirements and design the software model for the required features.
- Develop clean, maintainable, reusable, well annotated code.
- Thoroughly test software in standalone and hardware-in-the-loop simulation.
- Continually improve existing software, troubleshooting and debugging complex technical issues.
- Identify and track risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement in software and system design.
- Support the creation of and/or write user manuals for use of software.
- Document engineering concepts, design, test results, and analysis in technical reports.
- Support flight testing as required.
- Maintain current knowledge of software engineering best practices, architecture, languages, and tools.
- Implement best practices in work and recommend improvements to current practices.
- Transfer knowledge of system and software design to peers.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
- Retirement savings plan
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
- Paid time off including personal time
- Holidays
- Generous paid parental leave program
- Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
- Relocation assistance for qualified positions
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Prescription insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Basic & Voluntary Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance
- Short and Long-term Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid holidays
- Tuition Assistance
- Bonus(es) subject to performance criteria.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
