Avionics Software Engineer
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An Avionics Software Engineer designs, implements, integrates, verifies, and validates safety-critical embedded software for aerospace avionics projects within a consulting engineering team.
About this role
Avionics Software Engineer
Who are we?
Human and technology to scale sustainable performance
Founded in 1989, Scalian is a French group with an international dimension, with offices in Europe and North America, specializing in business transformation through its dual mastery of business processes and digital technologies.
In the TOP10 engineering consulting companies in France, the Group is involved in service activities in the management of industrial projects, supply chain (costs, quality, deadlines, performance), architecture and development of embedded digital systems, computer systems applications. Information and Artificial Intelligence.
Scalian also deploys solutions for optimizing projects or the performance of organizations and responds to the challenges of transformation for leaders in industry and the tertiary sector (energy, transport, space, banking, health, environment, etc.)
Are you an Avionics Software Engineer looking for a new challenge?
If you want to expand your reach and share your knowledge with a team of professionals, contribute to the development of your colleagues' or Clients' skills, want to consolidate your expertise and grow on innovative projects, this is your opportunity!
What this experience will bring you
First of all, an interesting technical challenge but also an overview of our Client's projects.
We will build your career together and accompany you towards the development of new skills and technical leadership.
What will your role be?
We are looking for an Avionics Software Engineer to join our engineering consulting team and support our client’s aerospace projects in the development of safety-critical avionics software. The successful candidate will work in a highly technical environment, contributing to the design, implementation, integration, verification, and validation of embedded software solutions throughout the software development life cycle. The role involves collaboration with our engineering teams and the client’s technical stakeholders, with responsibilities tailored according to the candidate’s experience and expertise.
- Contribute to the development of safety-critical embedded software for avionics applications.
- Support software requirements analysis, architecture definition, design, implementation, integration, verification, and validation activities.
- Participate in the complete software development life cycle, ensuring compliance with project processes, customer requirements, and applicable aerospace standards.
- Develop and maintain software documentation, including design documentation, technical reports, and verification evidence.
- Collaborate with system, hardware, electronics, and test engineers to support software integration and system-level activities.
- Support debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis during software development and integration phases.
- Contribute to software reviews, requirements traceability, verification planning, and certification activities according to the candidate’s level of experience.
Qualifications
What are we looking for in you? Experience and competencies
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or Telecommunications Engineering.
- From < 1 up to 3+ years of experience in embedded software development for safety-critical systems.
- Knowledge of embedded software development principles.
- Knowledge of safety-critical embedded software life cycle processes.
- Knowledge of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
- Good knowledge of C and/or C++ programming languages.
- Knowledge of software life cycle processes and development methodologies.
- Knowledge of software design methodologies, including UML.
- Knowledge of embedded communication protocols, such as Ethernet stack, UART, SDLC, SPI, and I²C.
- Knowledge of software design principles and engineering tools; experience with IBM Rhapsody is considered an advantage.
- Experience in requirements capture and management using IBM DOORS is considered an advantage.
- Knowledge of space and time partitioning concepts.
- Knowledge of safety-critical software development processes according to RTCA DO-178 standard.
- Knowledge of ARM processors and embedded software development toolchains (ARM v8 family preferred).
- Knowledge of Ada programming language is considered an advantage.
- Knowledge of software verification and validation principles, activities, and tools; experience with VectorCast is considered an advantage.
Soft skills:
- Problem solving
- Good communication skills
- Goal-oriented approach
- Self-Driven
- Proactive to solution
- Teamwork
Languages:
- Italian (Fluent)
- English (fluent, oral and written)
Additional Information
Why would you take the plunge?
Because Scalian is a group of specialists, carrying an ambitious development project, focused on innovation and committed to its customers where you can:
· Build a tailor-made career path, varied and adapted to your desires, thanks to the variety of missions in your area of expertise and the bridges between trades
· Learn by the quality of the projects on which you will intervene, in your specialty, and thanks to the large training catalog delivered by our internal Academy
· Have an attractive social framework that respects everyone's needs (telework agreement, crèches, social coverage, flexibility, soft mobility, etc.)
· Contribute to R&D topics or participate in internal projects
· Be part of a friendly team that will make work rhyme with pleasure!
So want to expand the frame? Contact us to talk about it
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