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Principal Engineer, Software Architect (R4562)
Shieldai
Dallas, USA
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
USD 215566-323350 yearly / year
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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- Define and evolve the system‑wide software architecture for XBAT, spanning airborne vehicle, ground station, and autonomy layers.
- Translate safety and security goals into technical requirements, standards, and design patterns that guide engineers across multiple software teams.
- Ensure architecture supports safety‑critical and cyber‑relevant workflows. This includes formalizing architecture decisions, traceability, and compliance pathways appropriate for advanced airborne systems.
- Drive cross‑team alignment on APIs, data flows, fault handling, verification strategy, and risk management so mission, vehicle, and autonomy components integrate cleanly.
- Partner with engineering leadership, system architects, and validation teams to balance innovation speed with rigorous assurance practices.
- Set technical direction for long‑term scalability: modularity, maintainability, testability, and support for future capability growth or certification needs.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects, raising the bar for design rigor, documentation quality, and architectural judgment across the organization.
- Produce and maintain architecture artifacts: high‑level system diagrams, component interfaces, data models, risk analyses, and design rationales.
- Lead technical reviews for major features, changes, or integration points; ensure alignment with architectural standards and safety/security constraints.
- Define architecture governance: decision records, change control processes, quality gates, and collaboration flows among development, verification, and operations.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, and avionics teams to manage boundaries, timing, resource allocation, and failure modes that affect overall aircraft and mission performance.
- Drive technology evaluation and roadmap: select or validate frameworks, middleware, and tooling that meet performance, assurance, and cyber‑hardening needs.
- Support external or internal readiness evaluations: provide architectural evidence, participate in reviews, and help the program articulate compliance posture as requirements evolve.
- Advocate for continuous improvement in architecture practice: metrics, architecture reviews, knowledge sharing, and onboarding for new team members.
- Deep expertise in software architecture for complex, multi‑domain systems—ideally aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, or similarly safety‑critical fields.
- Proven track record designing and delivering production software that must satisfy stringent safety, security, or mission assurance requirements.
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