Senior Principal Software Engineer (REMOTE)

About the role

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Software Architect to join our Integrated Flight – Advanced Flight Management Engineering team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This role offers opportunities to shape the future of aviation with innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize embedded flight management software applications for commercial and military platforms.
• Lead teams through certification reviews with customers and/or authorities.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, hardware teams, AI/ML specialists, and flight-test personnel to deliver integrated avionics solutions meeting stringent aviation safety, performance, and certification requirements.

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
• Experience in software design and development of large complex aircraft application.
• Experience with designing and implementing a large-scale modularized, reusable product line software.
• Applied experience of software development using C++, design patterns, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D).
• Experience in leading the DO-178 certification activities for software development in C++.

Qualifications

• Understanding of standard system engineering design artifacts such as Use Cases and SysML diagrams.
• Working Experience with DevOps, Jenkins and automated testing.
• Familiar with tools such as GIT, JIRA, Visual Studio Code, Docker, Jama.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• A generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages such as pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• and more!