Senior Software Engineer

SkyGrid, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Third-Party Service Provider (TSP), exists to open the sky for autonomous flight. Based in Austin, Texas, SkyGrid builds high-assurance third-party services to enable the safe operation and integration of autonomous aircraft. SkyGrid also acts as the operational nexus for Advanced Air Mobility, integration, and managing data, infrastructure, access, and traffic to support scaled operations.

The SkyGrid team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for various software development lifecycle activities including requirements, design, and implementation and verification per DO-178C standard. In this role, you will collaborate with various functional teams for requirements development and, architecture design, while and mentoring junior engineers to cultivate a team of independent and skilled professionals. This person will report to the Software Engineering Manager.

• Develop software high/low level requirements
• Establish traceability between system requirements and high/low level requirements
• Support oversight of software high/low level requirements development
• Contribute to software architecture design
• Support reviews of planning and standard documents, software high/low level requirements and architecture design

• Design, develop, and test safety critical software in C/C++ for a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) environment such as VxWorks, real time Linux
• Develop high/low level software requirements from system requirements
• Perform requirement/design/code/test artifacts reviews
• Ensure compliance with DO-178C software development practices, plans (Software Development Plan (SDP), Software Verification Plan (SVP), Software Configuration Management Plan (SCMP), standards,and produce necessary planning and development/verification artifacts
• Make key high-level design decisions for distributed architectures
• Conduct extensive testing, including software unit testing, requirements-based testing, structural coverage and system integration testing
• Engage in systematic debugging and root cause analysis to ensure software reliability
• Mentor junior developers, fostering a team of independent and skilled professionals
• Collaborate in Agile, development practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Translate business requirements into detailed software requirements and architectures

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience in C/C++ for safety critical systems
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field
• Comfortable working in Docker, container runtimes such as ECS or Kubernetes, and AWS
• Demonstrated capability in making architectural design decisions and mentoring others
• Experience with network programming and protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, TLS, SFTP)
• Strong ability in technical documentation and effective communication skills
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions independently without significant guidance
• Proficiency in Polarion, Git, and comfortable working in Linux or MacOS environments
• Proficiency with DO-178C, DO-330 and DO-331 standards, alternatively IEEE/ISO/IEC 12207 or IEC 615

• Experience in the aerospace, aviation, or autonomous systems industries is highly desirable
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines