Job Description

Principal Engineer

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. As our next Principal Engineer, you'll immerse yourself in Strategic Nuclear Deterrence, bringing your acumen to the forefront of innovation and ensuring the efficacy and security of systems that are vital to national defense.

What You Will Do:

• Provide direct support to stakeholders to answer questions and solve technical issues.
• Develop design and implement software that satisfies customer and certification needs.
• Produce high-quality software builds in an integrated test environment.
• Derive software requirements, create UML design diagrams, and code solutions from UML design diagrams.
• Communicate and collaborate with other Senior and Principal level Software Engineers, mentoring junior engineers/interns.
• Assist in the software requirements verification and test phases.

What You Will Learn:

• Learn and grow knowledge within the Strategic Nuclear Deterrence domain.
• Gain valuable experience & an opportunity to lead, including roles such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Cost Account Manager, and Software Lead.
• Become a subject matter expert and leader in communication technologies with exposure to the variety of business and products in an ever-evolving field.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in embedded software development with real time operating systems (RTOS).
• Experience in Agile development methods, including Scrum, automated testing, and continuous integration.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Exposure to Earned Value Management (EVM) and understanding of how test progress integrates into broader program performance metrics.
• Background in hardware-software integration, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, or working within real-time embedded environments.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks, test management suites, defect tracking tools, and requirements management platforms.
• Foundational understanding of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices and tools, including exposure to architecture models and interface control documents.

What We Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• Maybe eligible for relocation
• And more!

Learn More & Apply Now!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

This is an Onsite role: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.

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