Avionics Software Engineer

Code the Future of Flight. Engineer Mission-Critical Avionics.

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Job Type: Full-Time | 12-Month Contract

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

Pay Rate: $70.00-$120.00 per hour

Take Your Software Engineering Career to New Heights

PDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leader in the aviation industry to seek an experienced Avionics Software Engineer for an exciting opportunity in Fort Worth, TX.

In this role, you'll help develop, modify, test, and document embedded software requirements for military aircraft upgrade programs. Your expertise will support the integration of sophisticated avionics capabilities, helping ensure software systems meet critical performance, customer, and mission requirements.

If you have a passion for embedded software, avionics systems, and solving complex engineering challenges, this is your opportunity to make an impact where your code truly matters.

What You'll Do

As an Avionics Software Engineer, you will:

• Apply engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, design, develop, implement, test, and evaluate embedded software within avionics systems.

• Develop, modify, test, and document embedded software environment requirements for military upgrade programs.

• Translate system-level requirements into software requirements and associated verification tests.

• Manage and communicate software requirements with internal and external customers.

• Plan, support, and manage software integration activities to meet customer and program requirements.

• Collaborate across engineering and functional disciplines to ensure compliance with critical system performance parameters.

• Support requirements development, software verification, preliminary design, and detailed design activities.

• Identify and recommend design enhancements and future capability improvements to strengthen integrated weapon system performance.

• Build productive working relationships with customers, suppliers, engineering teams, and other program stakeholders.

• Support traceability between software requirements and test procedures.

Required Qualifications

We're looking for candidates with:

• Bachelor's degree in an applicable field.

• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including the ability to break system requirements into software requirements and corresponding tests.

• Experience with static and dynamic software test tools.

• Working knowledge of multiple software development languages.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across multiple organizations and engineering disciplines.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with customers, internal teams, and external suppliers.

• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

• Must be eligible to obtain a Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

Your background will stand out if you also have:

• Experience with C, C++, and/or C#.

• Knowledge of static and dynamic testing tools such as PC-Lint, LDRA Testbed, and VectorCAST.

• Experience using DOORS, including linking software requirements to test procedures and maintaining requirements traceability.

• Familiarity with military aerospace design and certification processes.

• Experience with requirements development and verification.

• Experience supporting preliminary and detailed software or avionics system design.

• Previous experience integrating embedded software into complex avionics or aerospace systems.

• Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams on military aviation programs.

Why Join Us?

At PDS Tech Commercial, we connect accomplished engineering professionals with opportunities to contribute to the technologies shaping the future of aviation.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Make a mission-critical impact: Your software engineering expertise will directly support advanced military aircraft upgrade programs.

• Solve challenging technical problems: Work at the intersection of embedded software, avionics integration, testing, requirements, and verification.

• Collaborate with top engineering talent: Partner with software, systems, avionics, integration, and other technical teams to deliver high-performance solutions.

• Expand your technical expertise: Gain exposure to advanced software test tools, requirements management, military aerospace processes, and complex systems integration.

• Help shape future capabilities: Identify opportunities to improve existing integrated systems and support the evolution of next-generation aircraft capabilities.

• Earn competitive compensation: Receive $70.00-$120.00 per hour, based on experience and qualifications.

• Join a culture of excellence: Work in an environment where collaboration, innovation, technical rigor, and continuous improvement are valued.

Ready to Engineer What’s Next?

If you're an experienced software engineer ready to apply your expertise to embedded avionics systems and advanced military aircraft technology, we want to hear from you.

Apply today with PDS Tech Commercial and put your software engineering skills to work on technology built for the future of flight.

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.

You should be proficient in:

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

Machines & technologies you'll use:

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