Software Project Engineer

Position Summary

Ensures timely and efficient completion of detailed software development/engineering projects to achieve company cost and user objectives. Acts as project leader with technical responsibility for design, planning, organizing, and conducting software projects or phases of projects. Develops software of considerable scope and complexity. Experienced with software programming using the C language.

• Performs software design of unique and considerable scope and complexity that includes requirements definition, interfacing with users, and providing cost and benefit analyses. Develops, plans, codes or installs software; tests, documents, and implements complex software products; prepares documentation; upgrades and maintains systems after implementation.
• Experience with airborne software life‑cycle process and activities per RTCA/DO‑178C and related certification requirements.
• Experienced with software programming using C language.
• Develops project goals and objectives to complete complex software engineering projects by reviewing customer requirements and conferring with user and management teams. Ensures project meets schedule, cost results, and technical expectations through effective project leadership.
• Determines project specifications by studying software requirements, user specifications, and performance standards; completing technical studies; defining and documenting system requirements; and preparing cost estimates. Determines validity and feasibility of requirements.
• Determines project responsibilities and ensures project assignment completeness, timeliness and accuracy. Identifies all required tasks and assigns staffing and resources. Estimates, develops, and manages project budgets and cost/performance analysis.
• Controls project plan by reviewing schedule, preparing and reporting status, monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems. Keeps project on schedule and within budget. Keeps management informed of project progress and identifies any issues that need to be elevated for resolution or assistance.
• Ensures project will meet customer requirements by determining development tools, modeling tools, programming language, system structure and hierarchy, third‑party libraries, operating system, hardware platform, user interface, and communication protocols.
• Directs testing and debugging of software by ensuring debugging tools and code meets the coding standards and satisfies all requirements. Determines testing methods. Ensures documentation of all testing methods, results, and performance benchmarks. Develops software testing procedures.
• Leads new technology evaluation related to design application architecture. Identifies alternative or new technologies and implements them as standards.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing technical professional publications, establishing industry networks, and/or participating in professional associations. Shares specialized knowledge with others and may serve as functional expert.
• Acts as a consultant to management. Prepares and conducts technical presentations on selected topics. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Identifies training and mentoring needs. Trains and mentors less experienced employees. Work assignments may include cross‑functional responsibilities (e.g., continuous improvement).

• Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline required. Master’s degree (MS) preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically acquired through eight or more years of increasingly responsible related software design experience utilizing the company’s standard tool‑sets.
• Comprehensive knowledge of software design, programming and analysis principles, and general business knowledge of manufacturing and support organizations, business and workflow process, and quality methods.
• Knowledge and proficiency in specialized areas such as graphical user interface design, distributed network programming,…