Mission Systems Avionics Software Engineer

**Mission Systems Avionics Software Engineer**
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**Your code will fly. Your decisions will shape the next generation of military avionics.**
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**Location:** Fort Worth, TX

**Employment Type:** Full-Time | 12-Month Contract

**Schedule:** Monday–Friday | 9/80A | 6:00 AM–3:30 PM

**Compensation:** $70.00–$120.00 per hour (commensurate with experience)

### **A Day in the Mission**

Start your morning collaborating with systems and integration engineers to scope new capabilities for a military aircraft upgrade. Before lunch, translate high-level system needs into precise, testable software requirements. After a quick sync with test and V&V, you roll into hands-on embedded coding, static analysis, and hardware-in-the-loop runs to validate behavior against stringent performance and safety targets. You close the day by documenting traceability and preparing for tomorrow’s integration in the lab.

### **What You'll Own**

* End-to-end embedded avionics software engineering: analyze, plan, design, develop, implement, test, and evaluate within real-time environments.
* Refine and document embedded software environment requirements for military aircraft upgrade programs.
* Derive software requirements from system specifications and create associated verification tests.
* Coordinate requirements with internal teams, suppliers, and customer stakeholders.
* Plan and support software integration to meet program milestones and customer criteria.
* Partner across engineering disciplines to satisfy critical performance parameters.
* Contribute to requirements development, verification, preliminary design, and detailed design reviews.
* Recommend enhancements and future capabilities to elevate integrated weapon system performance.
* Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams.
* Maintain rigorous traceability from requirements through test procedures.

### **Minimum Qualifications**

* Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering or computing field.
* Applied knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, including requirements decomposition and test definition.
* Experience with static and dynamic test tools.
* Proficiency with multiple programming languages.
* Clear, concise communication skills; comfortable coordinating across organizations and disciplines.
* Proven collaboration with customers, internal teams, and external suppliers.
* Strong teamwork, interpersonal, and organizational abilities.
* Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
* **Must be eligible to obtain a Security Clearance.**

### **Preferred Experience**

* C, C++, and/or C# in embedded contexts.
* Static/dynamic testing tools such as PC-Lint, LDRA Testbed, and VectorCAST.
* DOORS for requirements traceability and linking tests.
* Familiarity with military aerospace design and certification processes (e.g., DO-178 context).
* Hands-on requirements development and verification.
* Support for preliminary and detailed software or avionics system design.
* Integrating embedded software into complex avionics/aerospace systems.
* Collaboration on multidisciplinary military aviation programs.

### **Why This Contract Matters**

PDS Tech Commercial partners with a leader in the aviation industry to deliver flight-critical capability. In this role, you will:

* **Drive mission impact:** Contribute directly to advanced military aircraft upgrade programs.
* **Tackle complex engineering:** Operate at the intersection of embedded software, avionics integration, verification, and systems engineering.
* **Work with elite teams:** Collaborate with software, systems, avionics, and integration experts.
* **Grow your toolkit:** Deepen experience with test automation, requirements management, certification frameworks, and large-scale integration.
* **Influence the roadmap:** Identify improvements and help evolve next-gen aircraft capabilities.
* **Earn competitively:** $70.00–$120.00 per hour based on experience.
* **Join a culture of excellence:** Collaboration, rigor, innovation, and continuous improvement are core values.

### **Core Proficiencies**

* Avionics Systems; Flight Mission Systems
* Aerospace & Defense Engineering; Military Aircraft Upgrade Programs
* Embedded Systems Engineering; Embedded C/C++ Software Design
* Real-Time Software Development; Safety-Critical Software Development
* Hardware/Software Integration; System Integration Labs (SIL); HIL
* Configuration Management & SDLC Processes
* Software Requirements Engineering; Requirements Management & Traceability (DOORS)
* Software Integration & Testing; Software Verification & Validation (V&V)
* Static & Dynamic Code Analysis; Regulatory & Certification Compliance (DO-178, military standards)
* Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration; Technical Leadership & Customer Interface
* Security-Cleared Defense Environment Operations

### **Tools & Platforms You’ll Use**

* C, C++, C#
* Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
* DOORS; Requirements Traceability Tools
* PC Lint; LDRA TestBed; VectorCast
* Dynamic Testing Tools; Static Code Analysis Tools
* Embedded Computing Units (ECUs); Embedded Hardware Platforms; Embedded Software
* Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Test Environments; System Integration Labs (SIL)
* Continuous Integration/Build Tools; Software Configuration Management Tools
* Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

### **Ready to Get Started?**

If you’re eager to apply your embedded expertise to advanced military avionics, we’d love to meet you. Apply today and help shape the future of flight with PDS Tech Commercial.

**This position requires use of information or access to facilities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These regulations may limit access of controlled technologies: 1) to U.S. Persons, including U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other narrow categories including refugees and asylees, or 2) to certain foreign nationals that have received an export license.**