Software Chief Engineer

Job summary

The Software Chief Engineer serves as the senior technical authority, ensuring the integrity, coherence, and standardization of software across all flight and ground programs. This role involves setting the technical roadmap, resolving complex cross-cutting technical issues, and mentoring engineering leads to drive architectural excellence.

Job details

The Software Chief Engineer serves as the senior technical authority, ensuring the integrity, coherence, and standardization of software across all flight and ground programs. This role involves setting the technical roadmap, resolving complex cross-cutting technical issues, and mentoring engineering leads to drive architectural excellence. Candidates must have 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant tenure in a senior technical authority role such as Chief Engineer or Software Architect. A bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering or computer science discipline is required, along with demonstrated success in organizational AI leadership.

What you’ll do

The Software Chief Engineer serves as the senior technical authority, ensuring the integrity, coherence, and standardization of software across all flight and ground programs. This role involves setting the technical roadmap, resolving complex cross-cutting technical issues, and mentoring engineering leads to drive architectural excellence.

Requirements

Candidates must have 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant tenure in a senior technical authority role such as Chief Engineer or Software Architect. A bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering or computer science discipline is required, along with demonstrated success in organizational AI leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Wellness allowance
• Unlimited vacation
• Parental leave
• Holiday shutdown
• Relocation package
• Professional development fund

Listed skills

• CI/CD · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Software architecture
• Technical leadership
• Systems engineering
• Flight software
• Ground software
• AI strategy
• Mentoring
• Cross-program coordination
• Risk management
• Software lifecycle management
• Model-based systems engineering
• CI/CD
• Spacecraft autonomy
• GNC software
• Edge computing
• Technical governance

Job areas

• Software
• Engineering
• Management & Leadership
• Technology
• Science & Research

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