SkyGrid, a Boeing SparkCognition Company, exists to open the sky for autonomous flight. Based in Austin, Texas, SkyGrid builds high-assurance third-party services to enable the safe operations and airspace integration of autonomous aircraft. SkyGrid also acts as a key operational nexus for advanced air mobility, integrating and managing data, infrastructure, access, and traffic to support seamless and efficient air traffic services.

 The SkyGrid team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for various software development lifecycle activities like requirements, design, implementation and verification per DO-178C standard. In this role, you will collaborate with various functional teams for requirements development, architecture design and mentor junior engineers fostering a team of independent and skilled professionals. 

Performance Objectives:

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

• Design, develop, and test aerospace-grade software in C/C for a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) environment such as VxWorks 
• Develop high level and low-level software requirements from system requirements 
• Perform requirement/design/code/test artifacts reviews 
• Ensure compliance with DO-178C software development practices, 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 
• 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, 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 
• Strong ability in technical documentation and effective communication skills 
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions 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 

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