Principal Software Engineer (REMOTE)

Collins Aerospace is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join their Integrated Flight – Advanced Flight Management Engineering team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The role focuses on developing and optimizing embedded flight management software applications for commercial and military platforms, collaborating with various engineering teams to deliver integrated avionics solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Develop and optimize embedded flight management software applications used in commercial and military platforms
• Design and implement modular and reusable Flight Management product line software
• Lead the teams in developing the physics-based software related to aircraft performance
• Collaborate closely with systems engineers, hardware teams, AI/ML specialists, and flight-test personnel to deliver integrated avionics solutions that meet stringent aviation safety, performance, and certification requirements

Requirements:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
• Applied experience of software development using C++, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D)
• Experience in developing physics-based software and modeling the aircraft performance using modeling tools such as Matlab/Simulink and other flight simulation tools
• Working knowledge and application of neural networks in aerospace domain
• Working Experience with DevOps, Jenkins and automated testing
• Familiar with tools such as GIT, JIRA, Visual Studio Code, Docker, Jama