Senior Flight Controls Software Engineer – Remote Brazil

Archer; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is seeking a software engineer to develop safety-critical components for Archer’s flight control system in San Jose, CA. You will participate in planning, design, scheduling, prioritizing, and tracking the project with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure compliant, high-integrity software.

You will work on requirements decomposition, MBSD approaches, and design reviews while leveraging C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, and RTOS in a Linux environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a flight control software or a related field.
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree.
• Proficiency with C/C++.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink.
• Fluency with scripting languages like bash and Python.
• Experience developing software complying with safety standards like DO-178C or ISO 26262 to high criticality levels (DAL-A/B).
• Understanding of communication standards and protocols (RS-422/485, CAN, ARINC-429, AFDX, Ethernet, TCP/IP).
• Familiarity with debuggers and lab instruments such as oscilloscopes and bus analyzers.
• Experience with Model Based Software development and certification (DO-331).
• Knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and multi-threading.
• Experience with Linux.
• Experience with DO-254
• Experience with DO-330

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.
• 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++ proficiency

Linux experience

Flight control software

Model Based Development

Education

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

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Bash

Python

VHDL/Verilog

RTOS

DO-178C

DO-254

DO-331

SysML/UML

Job description

Archer is seeking a software engineer to develop safety-critical components for Archer’s flight control system in San Jose, CA. You will participate in planning, design, scheduling, prioritizing, and tracking the project with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure compliant, high-integrity software.

You will work on requirements decomposition, MBSD approaches, and design reviews while leveraging C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, and RTOS in a Linux environment.