3 months ago
North Kingstown, RI, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set reusable software architecture patterns, engineering standards, and certification approaches across vehicle programs.
- Own avionics architecture covering partitioning, criticality segregation, redundancy and failover, subsystem interfaces, and timing budgets.
- Partner with integrated product teams and chief engineers on architecture compliance, interface control, and design reviews.
- Lead software certification plans, evidence, staged authority reviews, and named program certification assignments.
- Lead hardware/software integration, SIL/HIL campaigns, and vehicle-level integration milestones.
- Design, implement, and verify flight-critical software modules hands-on.
- Establish design and code review standards and mentor senior engineers across teams.
- Select and qualify development and verification tools and govern SOUP/COTS acceptance and supplier evidence.
- Advise engineering leadership on architecture, certification risk, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Requirements
- Significant industry expertise across the full lifecycle of safety-critical avionics software using RTCA DO-178C, ideally at DAL A/B.
- Vehicle-level software architecture ownership on at least one aircraft, eVTOL, or UAS program.
- Track record owning core certification plans such as PSAC, SDP, or SVP and carrying authority reviews to closure.
- Expertise in partitioned and redundancy-managed systems, including scheduling, WCET, voting, monitoring, health management, and inter-processor communication.
- Strong embedded C/C++ experience on RTOS or bare-metal systems.
- Experience with deterministic avionics networking such as ARINC 664/AFDX, TTP, CAN, DDS, or equivalent, including bandwidth and latency budgeting.
- Systems engineering fluency in requirements decomposition, interface control, hazard analysis, and criticality flowdown.
- Preferred experience with MATLAB, Simulink, Embedded Coder, multi-program technical direction, chief-engineer or deputy-chief-engineer responsibilities, autonomy or flight-management systems, RTCA/EUROCAE participation, DO-330, DO-331, maritime or classification-society environments, remote operations or ground control systems, or establishing software processes at a small company.
About REGENT
REGENT designs and manufactures all-electric seaglider vessels—wing-in-ground-effect craft that travel just above the water—for coastal passenger and cargo transport. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the privately held company’s initial 12-passenger Viceroy model targets routes up to about 180 miles at roughly 180 mph using existing dock infrastructure. It sells vehicles and supporting systems to ferry operators, logistics providers, and other coastal transportation customers.