Staff Software Architect — Real-Time AR & Mission Systems

Red-6; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

FSA

401(k) Retirement Plan

Voluntary benefits

Annual bonus

Job summary

Red 6 is seeking a Staff Software Architect to define and evolve architectures across the ATARS platform. The role involves hands‑on architectural work across real‑time graphics, embedded software, edge computing, cloud services, and mission applications.

You will collaborate with engineering leadership and program teams to ensure scalable, secure, and mission‑ready software. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering with architecture leadership, experience in aerospace, and

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

Embedded software

Real-time applications

Distributed computing

Cloud platforms

Cybersecurity

DevSecOps

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/SE/EE

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud-native infrastructure

Embedded Linux

RTOS

GPU programming

Job description

Red 6 is seeking a Staff Software Architect to define and evolve architectures across the ATARS platform. The role involves hands‑on architectural work across real‑time graphics, embedded software, edge computing, cloud services, and mission applications.

You will collaborate with engineering leadership and program teams to ensure scalable, secure, and mission‑ready software. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering with architecture leadership, experience in aerospace, and