Flight Software Verification Manager

About the role

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.

As a Flight Software Verification Manager you’ll lead and grow the team responsible for performing the verification of our flight software to DO-178C compliant processes. The ideal candidate will bridge technical leadership, rigorous process compliance, and people management to guarantee the safety, airworthiness, and regulatory approval of our flight software products.

Responsibilities

- Provide direction and guidance to software verification engineers.

- Own software verification efforts.

- Triage issues found during verification and coordination with relevant teams.

- Provide training and mentoring to engineers in verification processes, tools and best practices.

- Identify, evaluate, and manage the qualification of software verification tools (e.g. test automation, static analyzers, coverage tools) according to DO-330 guidelines.

Basic Success Criteria

- 5+ years of experience in safety-critical software verification objectives (DO-178C, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, NPR 7150.2 or equivalent).

- 3+ years in a technical leadership or people management role.

- Proficiency with static analysis, structural coverage tools (e.g., Rapita, VectorCAST, LDRA), configuration management tools, and embedded programming environments (C/C++).

- Excellent documentation, collaboration, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Criteria

- Demonstrated success scaling teams and maturing verification processes in a high-growth environment.

- Experience specifying and working with a range of test environments to fulfill product and DO-178C verification objectives

- Practical experience of performing DO-178C verification analyses activities such as control and data coupling, worst case execution time etc

- Experience with tool qualification for DO-178C/DO-330.

- Prior certification liaison experience, working with Certification Authorities (FAA, EASA etc).

- Experience of automation and reporting of test results and coverage.

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.