About the position
Are you looking to make a meaningful, positive impact while advancing your career? Here at Collins Aerospace, we’re enhancing mission critical systems for our military to deter against current and future adversarial threats. The need for passionate engineers who want to make a difference is now! Our team develops strategic solutions to ensure Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) function accurately, on-time, every time, and under the most extreme circumstances for our national defense. We have an opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer to join a cohort of 20+ talented software engineers in developing our Very Low Frequency (VLF) solution for the military. The government has requested a need for greater cyber security threat protection, software assurance, improvement in availability and reliability while harnessing the latest technologies for rapid development and deployment.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively both within the software team, as well as with systems and hardware engineers to design and develop our solution for aircraft operators to control and monitor mission critical VLF transmitters
- Define software requirements and Unified Modeling Language (UML) design diagrams within a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool
- Support integration and verification within our automated test framework (gtest, python, JSON)
- Enhance simulation elements to reflect new hardware capabilities
- Drive technical design and software development practices to meet stringent Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
- Support document updates to meet customer Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)
- Provide insight on future scope, task assignments, and process improvements within our Agile cadence
- Mentor junior engineers and learn from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for career development growth
Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
- Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS), including development, debugging, and performance optimization of embedded software applications utilizing C/C++
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), system decomposition, and interface control across disciplines
- Experience with software lifecycle processes, configuration control, and change management in high-integrity development environments
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization in complex environments
- Experience in secure coding practices
- Experience with hardware-software integration and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
- Experience with development tool sets, including Jira, Git, Visual Studio Code, cmake
- Experience with Qt framework and development tools to generate C++ and QML code
- Experience with automated test frameworks, unit testing, and requirements traceability
- Experience in leadership roles (Technical Lead, Subject Matter Expert, or Product Owner)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Eligible for relocation
