Flight Software Verification Lead

Reliable Robotics; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Flight Software Verification Manager to lead the verification of our DO-178C compliant flight software. You will bridge technical leadership, process discipline, and people management to guarantee safety and regulatory approvals.

The role requires hands-on experience with verification tools, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers. Strong communication and documentation skills are essential in this high-stakes aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in safety-critical software verification to achieve DO-178C objectives.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership or people management role
• Proficiency with static analysis, structural coverage tools (e.g., Rapita, VectorCAST, LDRA), configuration management tools, and embedded programming environments (C/C++)
• Experience specifying and working with a range of test environments to fufill product and DO-178C verification objectives
• Practical experience of performing DO-178C verification analyses activities such as control and data coupling, worst case execution time etc
• Excellent documentation, collaboration, and cross-functional communication skills

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and guidance to software verification engineers.
• Own software verification efforts.
• Triage issues found during verification and coordination with relevant teams.
• Provide training and mentoring to engineers in verification processes, tools and best practices.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage the qualification of software verification tools (e.g. test automation, static analyzers, coverage tools) according to DO-330 guidelines.

Skills

DO-178C

Safety-critical verification

C/C++

Static analysis

Test automation

Flight software

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Rapita

VectorCAST

LDRA

Job description

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Flight Software Verification Manager to lead the verification of our DO-178C compliant flight software. You will bridge technical leadership, process discipline, and people management to guarantee safety and regulatory approvals.

The role requires hands-on experience with verification tools, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers. Strong communication and documentation skills are essential in this high-stakes aerospace environment.