Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Flight Software
Heart Aerospace7 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable embedded software controlling critical aircraft systems.
- Design and build software for engine controllers, battery management systems, flight control actuators, flight control systems, and aircraft data networks.
- Develop tools for test execution across simulated software environments and full-scale test stands.
- Build systems supporting software deployment, test execution, and data analysis within a continuous integration and release system.
- Contribute to requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, documentation, and software lifecycle support.
- Mentor junior engineers and establish team best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, electrical engineering, or a similar engineering discipline.
- At least 5 years of professional experience writing safety-critical code for vehicles or similar applications for the Senior level, or at least 8 years for the Staff level.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Significant experience with Rust, Python, C, C++, or a similar systems language.
- Experience developing software for embedded environments, including microcontrollers, bare metal, RTOS, or embedded operating systems.
- Experience modeling cyber-physical systems such as 6 DoF simulators, Monte Carlo models, or battery pack models.
- Strong systems design and software architecture fundamentals, including fault tolerance and fault mitigation.
- Experience developing software and hardware tests, including unit testing, integration testing, data collection and management, report generation, fuzzing, and automated test methods.
- Experience developing software under a functional-safety-compliant process such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, or DO-178C.
- Passion for aircraft and Heart Aerospace’s mission.
About Heart Aerospace
Heart Aerospace designs and manufactures the ES-30, a 30-passenger regional hybrid-electric airplane for commercial airlines and regional operators. The aircraft targets a zero-emission electric range of 200 km and a hybrid-extended range of 400 km, with type certification planned by the end of the decade. The privately held company develops aircraft using electrification, software, and modern manufacturing to lower operating costs for regional air service.