Software Engineer - Customer-oriented, Aerospace, Embedded; Field Application Engineer

Software Engineer - Customer-oriented, Aerospace, Embedded (Field Application Engineer)

Employment type

Full-time

Novi, MI, USA

This exceptional career opportunity allows you to use your software engineering and embedded skills in a customer-focused environment. You will have opportunities to travel worldwide, supporting major names such as Rolls‑Royce, Airbus, Boeing and Collins Aerospace to perform dynamic software analysis of critical systems and lead the way in high‑tech software automation.

You will work with a talented team, using a mix of hardware and software platforms including cutting‑edge SoCs, and optimizing the performance of Rapita’s tools in challenging environments.

Your team is the technical interface to our customers; you will be involved in a wide variety of specialist customer‑facing software engineering tasks. Your main responsibilities include:

• Providing expert integration services, consultancy and training for high‑profile customers around the world.
• Technical pre‑sales, helping customers to understand the benefits of our technology, providing demonstrations and proof‑of‑concept work.
• Helping customers to use our tools, offering prompt, accurate and positive responses to customer support requests.
• Influencing product development by identifying customer needs and translating these needs into commercial tools.
• Working on a wide variety of processors, compilers, debuggers and real‑time operating systems.

You can also expect to be involved in a variety of other activities, including:

• Creating and maintaining technology demonstrators.
• Research and development projects.
• Presenting and exhibiting at shows and conferences.

You should have both excellent embedded software engineering skills and good interpersonal and communication skills. You need to be highly motivated, hard‑working and innovative, with a "can‑do" attitude. Ideally, you should have:

• A strong software background with experience in reliable software, embedded software or real‑time systems.
• A degree (or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence working in a customer‑facing role, with strong written and spoken English.
• Ability to be organized under pressure, prioritize and manage your workload.
• Experience with a variety of real‑time operating systems (RTOS).
• Experience with aerospace and/or automotive applications.
• Familiarity with any of DO-178C, ARINC-653, DO-330 or related standards.

Competitive salary commensurate with skills and experience.