Principal Engineer, Software Architect (R4562)

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      "text": "WHAT YOU’LL DO:",
      "content": "\n<li>Define and evolve the system‑wide software architecture for XBAT, spanning airborne vehicle, ground station, and autonomy layers.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Translate safety and security goals into technical requirements, standards, and design patterns that guide engineers across multiple software teams.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Ensure architecture supports safety‑critical and cyber‑relevant workflows. This includes formalizing architecture decisions, traceability, and compliance pathways appropriate for advanced airborne systems.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Drive cross‑team alignment on APIs, data flows, fault handling, verification strategy, and risk management so mission, vehicle, and autonomy components integrate cleanly.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Partner with engineering leadership, system architects, and validation teams to balance innovation speed with rigorous assurance practices.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Set technical direction for long‑term scalability: modularity, maintainability, testability, and support for future capability growth or certification needs.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Mentor senior engineers and architects, raising the bar for design rigor, documentation quality, and architectural judgment across the organization.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Produce and maintain architecture artifacts: high‑level system diagrams, component interfaces, data models, risk analyses, and design rationales.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Lead technical reviews for major features, changes, or integration points; ensure alignment with architectural standards and safety/security constraints.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Define architecture governance: decision records, change control processes, quality gates, and collaboration flows among development, verification, and operations.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Collaborate with systems, hardware, and avionics teams to manage boundaries, timing, resource allocation, and failure modes that affect overall aircraft and mission performance.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Drive technology evaluation and roadmap: select or validate frameworks, middleware, and tooling that meet performance, assurance, and cyber‑hardening needs.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Support external or internal readiness evaluations: provide architectural evidence, participate in reviews, and help the program articulate compliance posture as requirements evolve.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Advocate for continuous improvement in architecture practice: metrics, architecture reviews, knowledge sharing, and onboarding for new team members.&nbsp;</li>\n"
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      "content": "\n<li>Deep expertise in software architecture for complex, multi‑domain systems—ideally aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, or similarly safety‑critical fields.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Proven track record designing and delivering production software that must satisfy stringent safety, security, or mission assurance requirements.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Strong systems thinking: able to navigate tradeoffs across performance, latency, reliability, testability, and certification or compliance considerations.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convey architecture vision and rationale to engineers, program leads, and stakeholders.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Experience driving architecture adoption and discipline across multiple teams, not just authoring designs in isolation.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.&nbsp;</li>\n"
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      "content": "\n<li>Familiarity with aerospace software assurance frameworks or standards that guide high‑assurance airborne software development.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Experience working on or integrating autonomy, mission planning, or AI‑enabled software into real‑world systems.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Strong understanding of cyber hardening and secure design practices for distributed or networked vehicle systems and ground infrastructure.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Prior leadership or mentor role with responsibility for building and scaling architecture practices and design culture in a fast‑moving engineering organization.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Experience dealing with constrained platforms: real‑time requirements, limited compute, or avionics‑style integration challenges.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Hands‑on experience in VTOL or other advanced aircraft programs, or in programs that require austere operations, long‑range operations, or resilient autonomy.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Exposure to end‑to‑end product lifecycle from concept through flight test or operational deployment.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Practical knowledge of modern software tooling that supports traceability, CI/CD, automated verification, static analysis, or high‑assurance pipelines.&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Comfort working in a highly collaborative, fast‑paced environment where requirements can evolve quickly and architecture must adapt without losing rigor.&nbsp;</li>\n"
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