Senior Flight Software Engineer - Embedded C/C++, SIL/HIL

Aeon Industries; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Team events

Daily lunches

Snacks & beverages

Job summary

Aeon is seeking a Senior Flight Software Engineer to design, implement, and validate embedded C/C++ software for advanced guided‑munition systems. You will work with GNC, aerodynamics, avionics, and test teams across the full software lifecycle, from concepts to flight readiness.

Responsibilities include building SIL/HIL environments, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling to improve simulation, testing, and debugging in a fast, collaborative setting. U.S. person under ITAR is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong C/C++ fundamentals and proficiency developing embedded or real‑time software.
• Strong software engineering principles, including architecture, testing, debugging, and code review.
• Demonstrated ability to translate functional diagrams, state machines, and engineering algorithms into C/C++.
• Working knowledge of unit, integration, and automated testing methodologies.
• Familiarity with developing, maintaining, or utilizing SIL and HIL test environments.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, Git, and Linux‑based development environments.
• Proven ability to debug complex issues across hardware and software boundaries.
• Strong technical documentation skills, including software designs, interfaces, and engineering decisions.
• Background supporting aerospace, robotics, automotive, defense, or other real‑time systems.
• Experience with 6DoF simulation, MATLAB/Simulink, controls, or flight dynamics is a plus.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR

Responsibilities

• Develop embedded C/C++ for our operational flight program (OFP).
• Translate functional diagrams, state machines, and algorithm definitions into flight software.
• Build and maintain SIL and HIL test environments.
• Develop unit, integration, and regression testing for flight software.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment.
• Develop software tools that improve simulation, testing, debugging, and flight‑test workflows.
• Own interfaces between flight software, sensors, actuators, avionics, and simulation.
• Own and maintain software documentation, including architecture, interfaces, requirements, and test procedures.
• Use ground and flight‑test data to reproduce problems and drive fixes.
• Work with GNC, aerodynamics, avionics, and test engineers from initial development through flight

Skills

C/C++ fundamentals

Embedded/real-time software

Software architecture

Testing & debugging

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Linux-based development

SIL/HIL testing

Unit/integration testing

Documentation

Aerospace/defense/real-time

6DoF simulation MATLAB/Simulink

Flight dynamics

ITAR compliance

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Aeon is seeking a Senior Flight Software Engineer to design, implement, and validate embedded C/C++ software for advanced guided‑munition systems. You will work with GNC, aerodynamics, avionics, and test teams across the full software lifecycle, from concepts to flight readiness.

Responsibilities include building SIL/HIL environments, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling to improve simulation, testing, and debugging in a fast, collaborative setting. U.S. person under ITAR is required.