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Senior Flight Software Engineer

General Atomics

$116,480 - $208,505
Dec 16, 2025
Huntsville, AL, US
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General Atomics (GA) is looking to solve the problem of developing and implementing missile flight software systems for defense, industrial, and commercial customers worldwide.

Requirements

  • Strong embedded software development discipline is a required.
  • Embedded C/C++ programming experience is required.
  • Experience working with custom hardware, reading schematics, and working with hardware designers is required.
  • Experience with RTOS, ARM, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, and Linux is desired.
  • Experience with Visual Studio IDE is desired.
  • Experience with missile avionics flight code is highly desired.
  • Experience with software unit, integration, and functional testing is desired.

Responsibilities

  • Assess and/or develop requirements, and design, implement, integrate and test work products.
  • Responsible for direct hands-on development of software in support of real-time and embedded missile related systems.
  • Collaborates daily with GA and customer engineering and program management teams.
  • Provides documentation and makes technical presentations as required.
  • Support development, review, and editing of technical documents as required.
  • Performs other duties as assigned or required.
  • Develop requirements, design, implement, integrate and test missile related embedded systems.

Other

  • Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; twelve or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, ten or more years of experience with a masters degree, or seven or more years with a PhD.
  • US citizenship is required.
  • Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret clearance. Active Secret DoD security clearance is preferred.
  • Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required enabling an effective interface with other departments and/or professionals.