Mission Systems Avionics Software Engineer

Your code will fly. Your decisions will shape the next generation of military avionics.

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Employment Type: Full-Time | 12-Month Contract

Schedule: Monday–Friday | 9/80A | 6:00 AM–3:30 PM

Compensation: $70.00–$120.00 per hour (commensurate with experience)

A Day in the Mission

Start your morning collaborating with systems and integration engineers to scope new capabilities for a military aircraft upgrade. Before lunch, translate high-level system needs into precise, testable software requirements. After a quick sync with test and V&V, you roll into hands-on embedded coding, static analysis, and hardware-in-the-loop runs to validate behavior against stringent performance and safety targets. You close the day by documenting traceability and preparing for tomorrow’s integration in the lab.

What You'll Own

• End-to-end embedded avionics software engineering: analyze, plan, design, develop, implement, test, and evaluate within real-time environments.
• Refine and document embedded software environment requirements for military aircraft upgrade programs.
• Derive software requirements from system specifications and create associated verification tests.
• Coordinate requirements with internal teams, suppliers, and customer stakeholders.
• Plan and support software integration to meet program milestones and customer criteria.
• Partner across engineering disciplines to satisfy critical performance parameters.
• Contribute to requirements development, verification, preliminary design, and detailed design reviews.
• Recommend enhancements and future capabilities to elevate integrated weapon system performance.
• Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams.
• Maintain rigorous traceability from requirements through test procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering or computing field.
• Applied knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, including requirements decomposition and test definition.
• Experience with static and dynamic test tools.
• Proficiency with multiple programming languages.
• Clear, concise communication skills; comfortable coordinating across organizations and disciplines.
• Proven collaboration with customers, internal teams, and external suppliers.
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, and organizational abilities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Must be eligible to obtain a Security Clearance.

Preferred Experience

• C, C++, and/or C# in embedded contexts.
• Static/dynamic testing tools such as PC-Lint, LDRA Testbed, and VectorCAST.
• DOORS for requirements traceability and linking tests.
• Familiarity with military aerospace design and certification processes (e.g., DO-178 context).
• Hands-on requirements development and verification.
• Support for preliminary and detailed software or avionics system design.
• Integrating embedded software into complex avionics/aerospace systems.
• Collaboration on multidisciplinary military aviation programs.

Why This Contract Matters

PDS Tech Commercial partners with a leader in the aviation industry to deliver flight-critical capability. In this role, you will:

• Drive mission impact: Contribute directly to advanced military aircraft upgrade programs.
• Tackle complex engineering: Operate at the intersection of embedded software, avionics integration, verification, and systems engineering.
• Work with elite teams: Collaborate with software, systems, avionics, and integration experts.
• Grow your toolkit: Deepen experience with test automation, requirements management, certification frameworks, and large-scale integration.
• Influence the roadmap: Identify improvements and help evolve next-gen aircraft capabilities.
• Earn competitively: $70.00–$120.00 per hour based on experience.
• Join a culture of excellence: Collaboration, rigor, innovation, and continuous improvement are core values.

Core Proficiencies

• Avionics Systems; Flight Mission Systems
• Aerospace & Defense Engineering; Military Aircraft Upgrade Programs
• Embedded Systems Engineering; Embedded C/C++ Software Design
• Real-Time Software Development; Safety-Critical Software Development
• Hardware/Software Integration; System Integration Labs (SIL); HIL
• Configuration Management & SDLC Processes
• Software Requirements Engineering; Requirements Management & Traceability (DOORS)
• Software Integration & Testing; Software Verification & Validation (V&V)
• Static & Dynamic Code Analysis; Regulatory & Certification Compliance (DO-178, military standards)
• Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration; Technical Leadership & Customer Interface
• Security-Cleared Defense Environment Operations

Tools & Platforms You’ll Use

• C, C++, C#
• Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
• DOORS; Requirements Traceability Tools
• PC Lint; LDRA TestBed; VectorCast
• Dynamic Testing Tools; Static Code Analysis Tools
• Embedded Computing Units (ECUs); Embedded Hardware Platforms; Embedded Software
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Test Environments; System Integration Labs (SIL)
• Continuous Integration/Build Tools; Software Configuration Management Tools
• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Ready to Get Started?

If you’re eager to apply your embedded expertise to advanced military avionics, we’d love to meet you. Apply today and help shape the future of flight with PDS Tech Commercial.

This position requires use of information or access to facilities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These regulations may limit access of controlled technologies: 1) to U.S. Persons, including U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other narrow categories including refugees and asylees, or 2) to certain foreign nationals that have received an export license.