The Sr. Software Integration Engineer ensures system safety and airworthiness, leading integration efforts among software, hardware, and flight operations. Responsibilities include driving test readiness and supporting flight test campaigns.
We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.
The Flight Test and Integration team is responsible for multiple integration and test efforts at Reliable Robotics. The team regularly ensures the proper function of mechanical, electrical, and flight control systems onboard the aircraft. In addition, this team has ownership over all ground and flight test operations within the organization. The team is composed of individuals familiar with experience developing experimental and certification products.
Responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Integration Engineer, you will be at the crossroads of hardware, software, and flight operations. Your mission is to ensure the system we build not only works but is proven to be safe and airworthy for both R&D and company flight test purposes. You will have the opportunity to lead design integration across software and hardware teams, untangling subtle interactions between components to ensure the whole system comes together as intended. You will become comfortable working in ambiguous situations with limited information, relying on your technical instincts and experience to track down the root of hard-to-find verification issues. Throughout development, you will drive test and flight readiness requirements across a broad technical reach of disciplines, paired with a sharp eye for risk. As part of the Flight Test & Integration team, you will also be responsible for supporting the definition, build, and execution of ground and flight test campaigns. Being onsite with the aircraft will provide insight into integration activities status and issues that best situate you to respond and iterate on the development process.
Basic Success Criteria
- Bachelor’s Degree of Science or Engineering in Aerospace, Software, or related discipline
- 8+ years of test engineering and/or data analysis experience
- Experience working on complex systems where hardware and software intersect
- Prior experience building test infrastructure, reviewing logs, and debugging systems
- Experience in system level verification and validation testing through systematic means
- Experience in creating and maintaining data management infrastructures
- Professional experience with Python or similar language
Preferred Success Criteria
- Advanced Degree in Aerospace Engineering or equivalent
- Private pilot’s license or equivalent
- Experience in analyzing aircraft system performance
- Experience in previous Part 23 and/or Part 25 certification programs
Sr. Software Integration Engineers at Reliable Robotics will have an opportunity to deliver a first-of-its-kind gate-to-gate autoflight system for commercial use. Let’s make it happen!
This role is located onsite at our HQ in Mountain View, CA. Must be willing to travel 15% of the time.
The estimated salary range for this position is $185,000 to $230,000. At Reliable Robotics, we strive to provide competitive and rewarding compensation based on experience and expertise, as well as market conditions, location, and pay equity.
In addition to base compensation, Reliable Robotics offers stock options, employee medical, 401k contribution, great co-workers and a casual work environment.
This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.
All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.
At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]
Top Skills
Data Management
Python
Test Infrastructure
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