Staff AR Systems Architect - Real-Time, AI & Edge

RiseMe; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, Dental, Vision 100% for员工

Paid time off - vacation/sick/holidays

Disability insurance

FSA

401(k) Retirement Plan

Voluntary benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Red 6 Aerospace, Inc. in Santa Monica, CA or Louisville, CO, seeks a Staff Software Architect (Level 4) to define and evolve software architectures across the ATARS portfolio and future platforms.

You will work with engineering leadership and program teams to deliver scalable, secure, mission-ready software across real-time graphics, embedded software, edge computing, and cloud services. The role covers safety-critical code, MOSA/ FACE standards, and modernization efforts including

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM discipline.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant expertise in software architecture or technical leadership roles.
• Software development and architecture experience in aerospace or similarly complex integrated hardware/software systems.
• Experience with embedded systems, distributed computing, cloud platforms, and real-time applications.
• Experience developing software for flight-critical, safety-critical, or mission-critical systems; familiarity with DO-178 and/or AC 17-01 is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, containerized applications, and edge computing.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, secure software development practices, and modern software delivery methods.
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, networking, GPU computing, and high-performance software architectures.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and evolve software architectures for ATARS and future software-enabled products.
• Lead architectural designs across embedded software, real-time rendering and operations, simulation, mission systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, AI/ML services, and user applications.
• Design for mission-critical performance requirements, including latency, determinism, scalability, cybersecurity, reliability, maintainability, and operational resiliency.
• Work with Chief Engineers and Systems Engineering to align software architecture with system architecture, technical baselines, product roadmaps, interfaces, and verification plans.
• Develop and apply modular, scalable, and reusable software architectures supporting MOSA, OMS/UCI, FACE, and other applicable defense standards.
• Implement and certify safety critical code to DO-178, AC 17-01 or other similar standards.
• Establish and promote software design standards, architectural patterns, interface and API practices, code quality expectations, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
• Contribute to modernization efforts including containerization, cloud-native services, DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and software factory practices.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering on Digital Engineering, MBSE, requirements traceability, interface management, and verification planning.
• Support customer engagements, proposal development, and technical discussions when needed.

Skills

Software architecture leadership

Real-time systems design

Embedded Linux

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps & CI/CD

MBSE & Digital Engineering

DoD security clearance readiness

High-performance software

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field

Master’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud-native infrastructure

Job description

Red 6 Aerospace, Inc. in Santa Monica, CA or Louisville, CO, seeks a Staff Software Architect (Level 4) to define and evolve software architectures across the ATARS portfolio and future platforms.

You will work with engineering leadership and program teams to deliver scalable, secure, mission-ready software across real-time graphics, embedded software, edge computing, and cloud services. The role covers safety-critical code, MOSA/ FACE standards, and modernization efforts including