Senior Principal Software Engineer (REMOTE)

Collins Aerospace is looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to join their Integrated Flight – Advanced Flight Management Engineering team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The role involves leveraging AI-driven development to build precision, safety, and intelligence behind tomorrow’s flight decks while designing and optimizing embedded flight management software.

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 teams through certification reviews with customers and/or authorities
• 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 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++
• 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