Senior Embedded Software Engineer | Airborne Software

At BETA Technologies, we apply our intellectual curiosity, passion for aviation, and commitment to sustainability toward a shared mission of revolutionizing electric aviation. Regardless of the position one holds, each team member brings their talent and desire to positively impact the environment and lives of others in a refreshing, vibrant, and inclusive culture.

• Analyze system requirements allocated to software for correctness, feasibility, and appropriateness from an embedded software perspective; propose changes and additional to system requirements to fulfill all airborne software needs
• Develop software high-level requirements to specify the functionality and characteristics of airborne software
• Architect and design the embedded software, considering hardware constraints, design constraints, and available resources to satisfy the software high-level requirements, and specify software low-level requirements
• Develop embedded software in the C and Assembly programming languages for ARM microcontroller targets
• Integrate the software with other software and the target hardware; assist with system integration
• Assess, measure, troubleshoot, and resolve issues with software execution and characteristics such as timing and performance
• Promote the reuse of embedded software and associated life cycle data throughout the Airborne Software team
• Perform peer reviews of other team member's contributions to the software development project
• Inform the software verification team for the appropriate testing and analysis of the embedded software
• Lead a small team of embedded software engineers for the development of software for an airborne system
• Mentor junior engineers by training them on DO-178C objectives, activities, and outputs; real-time and safety-critical embedded software best practices; and integration and troubleshooting methods and techniques

• BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related degree from an accredited university
• Minimum 7 years experience in real-time embedded software development for safety-critical systems
• Excellent requirements engineering and software architecture/design experience
• Mastery of the C programming language
• Knowledge of Texas Instruments Hercules and/or STM ARM microcontrollers, or equivalent
• Comfortable reading electrical schematics, technical documentation, reference manuals, and datasheets
• Deep experience with electronics lab equipment such as programmable power supplies, signal generators, oscilloscopes, and bus analyzers
• Expert level knowledge and experience with the activities and outputs required for DO-178C Level A compliance
• Excellent team communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently, as a member of an integrated team, and as a technical leader of a small team of dedicated software engineers
• Deep knowledge and experience with communications interfaces and devices such as SPI, I2C, CAN, ARINC 429, Analog-to-Digital Converters, Direct Memory Access controllers, and temperature, voltage, and current sensors
• Experience with Stage of Involvement reviews and communication with FAA personnel and DERs
• Experience with RTCA DO-330 tool qualification objectives, activities, and outputs
• Experience with RTCA DO-331 model-based development objectives, activities, and outputs
• Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don’t meet all minimum qualifications

• Experience with the Texas Instruments TMS
  570 ARM microcontroller
• Experience with the Lauterbach TRACE
  32 debug/instruction trace system
• Experience with GNU GCC ARM embedded toolchain and Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio
• Experience with the Polarion ALM life cycle data management system
• Experience with embedded software for electric motor control, battery management systems and/or flight control systems
• Experience with project management activities, such as estimating, tracking, and reporting work; traditional, kanban, and scrum experience

This position could be based in South Burlington, VT (primary location), or Raleigh, NC office. For more…