DO-178C Certification Lead — Drone GNC Systems

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 151,200 - 204,600; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Prime Air in Seattle, WA is seeking a Sr. Systems Development Engineer to own DO-178C certification strategies for the Drone GNC software team.

This individual contributor role defines certification processes and interfaces with the FAA and DERs to drive end-to-end software certification. The role requires hands-on embedded software experience and deep DO-178C expertise, with responsibility for SOI audits, plan artifacts, traceability, and tool qualification, impacting organization‑wide

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 5+ years of direct, hands-on DO-178C (or DO-178B) experience, including authoring or owning software lifecycle data artifacts (PSAC, SDP, SVP, SCMP, SQAP, SAS) at DAL C or higher.
• Experience building DO-178C processes from scratch to satisfy SOI-1 planning objectives.
• Experience executing or leading DO-178C SOI audits — SOI-1 through SOI-4.
• Deep knowledge of DO-178C objectives and independence requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own DO-178C certification strategy for Prime Air software, defining end-to-end lifecycle from planning to SAS and final certification.
• Develop and establish DO-178C processes that satisfy planning objectives (PSAC, SDP, SVP, SCMP, SQAP).
• Lead all four SOI audits — SOI-1 to SOI-4 — as primary technical representative to FAA/DER.
• Serve as Auditor for software certification activities and findings.
• Define and enforce process rigor based on DAL across the software lifecycle.
• Establish software structural coverage standards, tooling, and reporting for DO-178C.
• Build and maintain requirements traceability from system requirements through HLRs/LLRs/code/tests (Jama).
• Define tool qualification strategy under DO-330 and prepare TQPs.
• Mentor senior engineers toward certification expertise.
• Influence organization-level airworthiness strategy and certification practices.

Skills

DO-178C

DER experience

Embedded systems

C/C++

Software certification

SOI audits

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems Engineering

Tools

Jama

PSAC

SDP

SVP

SCMP

Job description

Amazon Prime Air in Seattle, WA is seeking a Sr. Systems Development Engineer to own DO-178C certification strategies for the Drone GNC software team.

This individual contributor role defines certification processes and interfaces with the FAA and DERs to drive end-to-end software certification. The role requires hands-on embedded software experience and deep DO-178C expertise, with responsibility for SOI audits, plan artifacts, traceability, and tool qualification, impacting organization‑wide