About This Role
This Level 2 Software Engineer role offers hands-on experience across the software lifecycle, working with experienced engineers to build next-generation mission computers for safety-critical avionics systems. You will help transform ideas and requirements into reliable, flight-ready software, seeing your work through development, integration, test, and certification.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, test, debug, and maintain product line application software for aircraft navigation systems
- Analyze requirements and develop software solutions that run on Real-Time Operating Systems and hypervisors such as LynxOS, Windriver VxWorks, or Green Hills Integrity
- Perform hands-on software/hardware integration, verification, troubleshooting, and system-level debugging using target hardware and laboratory instrumentation
- Troubleshoot technical issues and develop creative solutions
- Apply software engineering tools, processes, and best practices
- Support integration, verification, and validation activities in a lab environment
- Produce technical documentation and software artifacts to support quality and safety certification
- Learn new technologies and take on increasingly complex challenges
- Support modern DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD and automated testing
- Participate in peer reviews and technical design discussions
- Bring fresh ideas that can improve products and processes
Requirements
- 2+ years related experience with an Associate's Degree in a STEM-related field or 1+ years related experience with a Bachelor's degree in a STEM-related field
- Experience developing C/C++ code for embedded systems
- Familiar with developing and debugging software that controls hardware devices
- Experience developing, integrating, and debugging software within a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) or embedded Linux environment (e.g., Wind River VxWorks, LynxOS, Green Hills Integrity, or similar)
- Must be a US Citizen; this position will require a DoD government security clearance at the Secret level
Nice to have:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent STEM computing field with 2+ years related professional experience or at least 1 year of related experience required with a related Master's degree
- Experience working with communication protocols such as ARINC 429, MIL-STD 1553, RS 422 Serial
- Experience writing device drivers and product line software
- Familiarity with open architecture initiatives and modular design standards (e.g., FACE, OMS, SOSA)
- Familiarity with safety-critical software development processes (e.g., DO-178C)
- Experience developing test plans and procedures for software verification
- Experience with Git/GitLab, SonarQube, or Atlassian products
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Parental Leave
- EAP
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Education Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For Washington state applicants only: Non-represented full-time employees accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
About the Company
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems in Owego, NY, develops mission-critical embedded software and advanced technologies for complex defense and aerospace systems. Their software supports safety-critical avionics, mission computers, embedded processing, and secure systems where reliability and performance are crucial. RMS Owego brings together software, systems, hardware, and integration expertise to develop advanced mission solutions, with engineers working with real mission hardware in onsite laboratories.
