Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Avionics Flight Deck

Honeywell Aerospace; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Disability coverage

401(k) match

Educational assistance

Parental leave and paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a Sr Advanced Software Engineer to lead design, development, verification, and release of avionics software. You will collaborate across teams, mentor junior engineers, and work on core flight deck systems in a hybrid layout.

Initial 90 days require onsite work, with ongoing flexibility after onboarding. The role emphasizes technical depth, systems integration, and regulatory compliance to deliver customer‑driven software solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as the sciences, technology, engineering or mathematics.
• 8 years of software development experience, including product development and systems/software integration in embedded, real-time, or regulated software environments.
• 8 years of hands‑on development experience using C++ in embedded and/or real‑time systems (e.g., DEOS, RTOS, or equivalent environments).
• Experience designing and implementing software architectures, object‑oriented designs, algorithms, data structures, and software lifecycle processes including design, development, verification, and release.
• 8 years of experience in regulated or safety‑critical industries such as aerospace, avionics, defense, industrial automation, medical devices, or similar environments.
• Experience developing, integrating, testing, or maintaining real‑time, embedded, control, or mission‑critical systems.
• Experience supporting certification, compliance reviews, quality audits, or requirements‑based verification activities.
• Experience providing technical guidance, code reviews, onboarding support, or mentoring to early‑career engineers.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute engineering project tasks to meet technical, quality, schedule, and customer requirements.
• Perform feature implementation, sub-task identification, and technical coordination across software development activities.
• Develop, analyze, and capture software and system requirements for assigned features and subsystems.
• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain software for Avionics Displays systems, algorithms, and application/framework-level functionality.
• Conduct testing, debugging, integration, and verification of software and systems to ensure compliance with product and project requirements.
• Support generating software builds, integration, and release activities to enable efficient software delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including systems engineering, cross-functional teams, quality, certification, program management, and other engineering disciplines.
• Support the completion of products to achieve certification and customer acceptance.
• Interface with internal and external customers to facilitate product development and ensure compliance with customer specifications.
• Communicate project status, technical progress, risks, and process updates to leadership and customers.
• Identify non-compliance issues and communicate audit findings, corrective actions, and technical impacts to relevant stakeholders.
• Identify, propose, and implement technical and process improvements to enhance engineering efficiency, quality, and project outcomes.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of engineering processes, methods, and guidelines within Integrated Flight Deck Systems COE.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to early-career engineers.
• Provide directions to other engineers and support personnel to ensure alignment with project and product compliance objectives.

Skills

C++

Embedded/RTOS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline

Tools

DEOS

RTOS

Job description

Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a Sr Advanced Software Engineer to lead design, development, verification, and release of avionics software. You will collaborate across teams, mentor junior engineers, and work on core flight deck systems in a hybrid layout.

Initial 90 days require onsite work, with ongoing flexibility after onboarding. The role emphasizes technical depth, systems integration, and regulatory compliance to deliver customer‑driven software solutions.