Software Manager

• Software Development: Oversee the development of software for secure communication systems to ensure it meets design and quality. This position may involve occasional handson development and troubleshooting.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Provide daytoday leadership to a software engineering team guiding team members through technical challenges and fostering a collaborative highperformance environment. Manage team performance provide regular feedback support career growth for team members and collaborate with other functional teams to drive organizational goals and innovation.
• Software Best Practices: Guide the team in designing scalable modular software architectures based on open systems standards ensuring future flexibility and compatibility with evolving mission needs and hardware advancements.
• Data Protection & Compliance: Ensure that software solutions are compliant with the latest data protection standards including data encryption multilevel security protocols and secure communication requirements.
• Software Lifecycle Management: Oversee the complete software development lifecycle from requirements gathering and design to implementation testing deployment and maintenance.
• Agile Project Management: Participate as required in agile software development processes including sprint planning task prioritization and backlog management. Working closely with the technical program manager ensure timely delivery of software milestones while meeting quality and performance standards.
• Process Optimization Provide ownership to the software change process and contribute to ideas to standardize and optimize the process ensuring all software quality requirements are met.
• Uphold Palomars policies quality standards and business practices ensuring compliance across all aspects of the program.
• Adhere to Palomars Code of Business Conduct and Ethics ensuring that all work is conducted with integrity and in full compliance with regulatory and ethical standards.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Vice President of Engineering contributing to continuous improvement and the overall success of the engineering department.

• Leadership and Communication: Strong leadership skills are critical including the ability to manage crossfunctional teams mentor engineers and communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience with Software Life Cycle Processes: The candidate should be familiar with structured planning requirement definition design implementation and documentation throughout the software life cycle ensuring compliance with standards like DO178C. This includes Static Code analysis.
• Verification and Validation Expertise: The candidate should have experience in overseeing software verification activities including testing and ensuring traceability between requirements design and test results to confirm that the software works as intended.
• RiskBased Approach: The candidate should be comfortable working with Development Assurance Levels (DAL) identifying the criticality of software and applying appropriate rigor in the development process especially for higherrisk systems.
• Configuration and Change Management: The candidate should have experience with managing software configuration ensuring version control and handling changes particularly when those changes affect safetycritical functions.
• Quality Assurance & Independent Reviews: The ideal candidate should be adept at implementing quality assurance practices according to our QMS processes including regular independent reviews to ensure adherence to safety and compliance standards.
• Regulatory and Certification Experience: The candidate should have familiarity with certification requirements (such as FAA or EASA) and the ability to produce the necessary documentation and evidence to meet DO178C standards for software certification.

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field
• 8 years of experience in software engineering with at least 35 years in a leadership/management role
• Experience with Military communication systems with particular emphasis on airborne communication systems
• Working knowledge of military and commercial Aerospace certification processes such as DO178C and DO254
• Experience with agile software development tools
• Experience with Open System Standards. Modular Open Architecture Standard (MOSA) and Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) such as FACE (Future Airborne Capabilities) for developing and verifying avionics software

Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

*This position requires either a US Person (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a nonUS person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization. *

*To comply with U.S. export laws and regulations Palomar Products Inc. operations in the U.S. may only employ U.S. Persons as defined by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

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