GPS Applications Engineer

About the role

Elevate Aviation Safety: Lead Certification for Next-Gen Military GPS

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the development and refinement of software lifecycle plans, ensuring the deterministic execution of safety-critical embedded systems.
• Conduct and support high-stakes formal audits with regulatory authorities like the FAA and EASA to secure vital certification credits.
• Manage the end-to-end generation and bidirectional traceability of essential lifecycle data, from low-level design to hardware interface documentation.
• Champion process innovation by identifying and adopting best practices that enhance the quality and efficiency of the certification journey.
• Serve as the central technical liaison for design assurance, uniting systems, hardware, and software teams to achieve seamless product releases.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or EE.
• Over 5 years of experience in safety-critical avionics or aerospace certification.
• Deep expertise in DO-178C standards and successful navigation of civil aviation authority audits.
• Proven track record of authoring complex lifecycle artifacts and managing them within tools like DOORS, Jama, or Git.
• Proactive, collaborative mindset with the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bonus points for practical experience with DO-254 hardware design assurance standards.
• Hands-on experience performing verification and structural coverage analysis directly on target hardware.

Skills

• DO-178C standards
• DO-254 hardware design assurance standards
• Avionics Certification
• Embedded Software
• Systems Engineering
• FAA
• Aerospace Engineering
• GPS Technology
• Safety-Critical Systems
• Design Assurance

Benefits

Trimble provides comprehensive core benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans, and retirement plans. Additional benefits may vary by location.

Pay

This compensation range is based on a full-time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Schedule

Full-time

Location

Sunnyvale, California (Office)