Senior Flight Controls Software Engineer — Remote

Archer; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

Archer is seeking an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop and test safety-critical software for Archer’s fault-tolerant flight controls system.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a flight control software or a related field.
• Proficiency with C/C++ and MATLAB/Simulink.
• Familiar with safety standards like DO-178C to high criticality levels (DAL-A/B).
• Understanding of communication standards and protocols (RS-422/485, CAN, ARINC-429, AFDX, Ethernet, TCP/IP).

Responsibilities

• Develop safety critical software components for Archer’s flight control system.
• Participate in planning, design, scheduling, prioritizing, and tracking the project.
• Work with system engineers to decompose item requirements into high level and low level software requirements in compliance with DO-178C.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to develop and integrate the complex hardware/software flight control system.
• Development of software plans, processes & guidelines.
• Software requirements decomposition, analysis, definition, and traceability.
• Software design and development, performance, risk, safety, operation and cost optimization trade studies, and lead / conduct design reviews.
• Software analyses, requirements-based testing, and structural coverage analysis.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes to increase safety and efficiency.
• Archer Brazil is based in Sao Paulo, but this role is remote friendly anywhere in Brazil

Skills

C/C++

MATLAB/Simulink

Python scripting

DO-178C

Flight control experience

Linux

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree

Job description

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

Archer is seeking an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop and test safety-critical software for Archer’s fault-tolerant flight controls system.