Description
Leidos is seeking a Senior Embedded Flight Software Architect to work in its Huntsville office. The successful candidate will use their knowledge, experience, and design expertise to envision, formulate, and design the capabilities of embedded software for flight systems.
The position primarily focuses on the system and software design of robust, innovative, modular software for real-time embedded airborne systems. The position's secondary focus is the design of software to support fielding, operations, support, and maintenance of embedded software products.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing embedded software structures, interfaces, and behaviours for airborne systems
- Providing hands-on technical leadership throughout software development
- Developing and evaluating conceptual flight software architectures
- Identifying relevant standards, practices, and processes
- Collaborating with software developers, program teams, and corporate technical leadership
- Maintaining accountability for the technical integrity of assigned architectures and designs
- Advising Software IPT Leads, Technical Leads, and Test Leads on approaches for software project execution
- Collaborating with systems engineers to model and maintain software architectures using model-based systems engineering techniques
- Assisting electrical designers with the formulation of solutions and trade studies
- Supporting working groups and consortia with software architecture expertise
- Participating in Agile planning and writing epics and high-level stories
- Participating in requirements and design reviews
- Contributing solutions, software architectures, and evidence-based estimates to proposals
- Communicating directly and regularly with customers, end-users, and other team members
The successful candidate will have:
- At least a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree
- 12 or more years of relevant technical experience
- Prior relevant technical experience in developing, integrating, testing, and/or troubleshooting embedded software or embedded-adjacent applications
- Extensive knowledge of disciplined software engineering practices
- Strong competency in formulating and expressing software architectures using industry-recognised design techniques or notations
- Ability to evaluate software architectures against functional requirements, system-level quality attributes, performance constraints, integration risks, and lifecycle considerations
- Competency with one or more architectural design patterns, detailed design patterns, and object-oriented design principles
- Familiarity with one or more embedded processor architectures and their application in microcontrollers, systems-on-chip, or similar implementations
- Substantial knowledge of design considerations for performance-constrained and real-time embedded systems
- Strong competency in at least one relevant embedded programming language (C, C++, or Rust)
- Aptitude with one or more architecture tools/IDEs
- Strong quantitative, analytical, technical leadership, and communication skills
Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience with one or more Government Reference Architectures
- Experience with applicable industry standards, frameworks, and process models
- Experience developing software technical data and deliverables in accordance with Data Item Descriptions
- Experience using AI to assist with software specification, design, coding, testing, and/or technical document generation
- Experience using AI/ML models in the integrated solution
- Experience with FPGA-based systems
- Experience in the design and implementation of time-critical software for integrated systems
- Experience with hardware/software integration, bootloaders, and use of tools such as JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers