Senior BMS Software Engineer (Safety-Critical)

Archer; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California, developing an all-electric four-passenger VTOL with a focus on sustainable air mobility. We seek an experienced embedded software engineer to design, verify, and certify safety-critical software for the aircraft battery management system, working with a cross-functional team to ensure high-integrity hardware/software integration.

You will contribute to low-level driver development, DO-178C compliant processes, and fault-detection

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a related field.
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree.
• Proficiency with C/C++.
• Familiarity with safety critical software development standards (DO-178C, ISO26262, ASIL).
• Hands-on experience through the Full Software Development Life Cycle.

Responsibilities

• Embedded development and verification of safety critical software components for the aircraft battery management system.
• Develop and integrate battery controls and low-level drivers for battery microcontrollers interfacing with analog/digital front-end circuitry.
• Decompose requirements into high- and low-level software requirements per DO-178C.
• Develop and verify complex hardware/software systems with a multidisciplinary team.
• Implement fault detection and diagnostic algorithms in software for hardware events.
• Apply DSP and filtering to sensor data to improve state estimation and protection functions.
• Lead board bring-up and debugging of new BMS hardware designs.
• Support streamlined software development and verification processes for certification (DO-178C).
• Foster team collaboration and personal development.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded software

Safety-critical software

DO-178C/ASIL compliance

Sensor data processing

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

CAN

ARINC-429

Ethernet

SPI

I2C

RS-422/485

Job description

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California, developing an all-electric four-passenger VTOL with a focus on sustainable air mobility. We seek an experienced embedded software engineer to design, verify, and certify safety-critical software for the aircraft battery management system, working with a cross-functional team to ensure high-integrity hardware/software integration.

You will contribute to low-level driver development, DO-178C compliant processes, and fault-detection