Lead Embedded Software Engineer (Avionics)

Location: Phoenix, AZ; on-site

Company

hirify.global designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems for safety-critical commercial, military, and rotorcraft aviation applications.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for the software lifecycle across concept, development, certification, and field deployment.
• Lead software development, estimation, technical reviews, program planning, risk assessments, and customer meetings.
• Ensure compliance with DO-178C and other applicable aerospace standards while supporting TSO and regulatory certification activities.
• Lead field investigations, red-team reviews, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action activities for product issues.
• Drive process improvement, software architecture decisions, and the adoption of AI-enabled engineering technologies.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with software, systems, hardware, quality, certification, and program teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Significant experience developing safety-critical embedded software in aerospace, avionics, or similarly regulated industries.
• Experience leading software development efforts and providing technical direction across engineering teams.
• Experience supporting software certification activities and compliance with aerospace development standards.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction within a matrixed engineering organization.

Nice to have

• Experience with surveillance products such as transponders, TCAS, TAWS, or related avionics systems.
• Experience with RTOS platforms including Green Hills, VxWorks, CentOS, or similar systems.
• Programming experience with C++, Python, Visual Basic, Pascal, or similar languages, and software development in Linux environments.
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket, ClearCase, ClearQuest, DOORS, Jama, Jenkins, automated builds, Agile, DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous testing.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering tools and software development automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a highly regulated, safety-critical aviation environment.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering and certification teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks may be conducted where permitted by law.
• hirify.global is an E-Verify employer and an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.