Principal Engineer (Hybrid)

Principal Engineer – Safety-Critical Embedded Software (Avionics)

Shape the Future of Aerospace with Collins Aerospace

At RTX, one of the world's largest aerospace and defense companies, over 185,000 innovators are driven by a shared purpose—to solve the world's toughest engineering challenges and create technologies that connect and protect people around the globe.

As part of Collins Aerospace, you'll join a team that's redefining the future of aviation through advanced avionics, intelligent systems, and safety-critical technologies. Our solutions power virtually every aircraft in the sky, enabling safer, smarter, and more efficient flight.

If you're passionate about building mission-critical embedded software that meets the highest standards of safety and reliability, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

As a Principal Engineer, you will play a key role in the design, development, and validation of safety-critical avionics software for next-generation aerospace platforms.

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  Develop and validate complex safety-critical embedded software applications.

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  Lead software development across the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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  Analyze customer and system requirements, translating them into high-level and low-level software requirements.

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  Define software architecture, design approaches, and verification strategies.

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  Develop and review software test plans, test cases, and validation procedures.

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  Ensure compliance with aerospace certification standards and engineering best practices.

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  Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Systems Engineering, Verification & Validation, Certification, and Program Management.

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  Drive technical excellence while mentoring engineers and contributing to continuous process improvements.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, or a related STEM discipline.

• • 6+ Years of Hands-on embedded software development experience using C++.

  • Programming experience in embedded systems and scripting languages.

  • Knowledge of Flight Management Systems (FMS).

  • Exposure to aerospace certification and regulatory compliance processes.

  • Strong analytical, communication, and technical leadership skills.

At Collins Aerospace, we're not just building aerospace systems—we're redefining what's possible. If you're ready to work on technologies that shape the future of flight, we'd love to hear from you.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  

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