R&T Software Engineer 3

Job description

R&T Software Engineer 3

Job details

General information

Entity

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Cabin designs, certifies, manufactures and supports innovative aircraft cabin interiors, equipment and systems, providing airlines and OEM Customers with distinctive aircraft branding, and their passengers with a safe, comfortable and enjoyable flying experience.

Reference number

2026-172745

Job details

Domain

Research, design and development

Job field / Job profile

Architecture and systems engineering - Systems engineering

Job title

R&T Software Engineer 3

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip.

Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of R&T Software Engineer 3 you'll play a pivotal part on our Engineering team. The R&T Software Engineer 3 acts as the technical lead in strategy and design of airworthiness software solutions for the business. This position requires full-stack engineering knowledge and skills to provide leadership to develop and integrate digital technologies such as IoT devices, AI/ML models, cloud and mobile/web applications deployment. The position requires understanding of the business context and perform in-depth analysis to evaluate design, risk, technology, time and cost to architect a pragmatic solution that will satisfy business objectives. The position also requires the candidate to foster a culture of continuous improvement, coach and mentor more junior software engineers. The key responsibility of this position is to develop end-to-end solutions for aircraft OEM / airlines customers and for internal use.

The R&T Software Engineer 3 will take ownership and/or support technical engineering teams and projects related to engineering and R&T products/systems and components. Using sound engineering principles, this engineer will interface with cross functional groups (internal and external) to ensure robust, airworthy designs are attained which meet budget, schedule and internal requirements and goals. This leadership position will be responsible for participating in and leading improvement activities at a group and/or company level.

This position contributes to our vision by:

• Design and implementation experience of advanced AI/ML models, RAG, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, data pipelines.

• Experience in Python, TensorFlow, and PyTorch, JAX, Claude/Open AI LLMs with a focus on delivering scalable AI solutions

• Experience in Vector DBs such as Pinecone/ Chroma DB, and frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers

• Design and develop full-stack applications for device management, control, and aircraft fleet coordination.

• Build and maintain mobile apps (React Native/Android) and web apps used by operators in the field.

• Develop web dashboards and APIs for maintenance planning, status, and data analysis.

• Integrate AWS services for data storage, monitoring, and deployment.

• Ensure reliable, low-latency communication between cloud systems and aircraft on-board equipment.

• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver seamless end-to-end functionality.

• Write documentation for APIs, architecture, and software modules.

• Optimize software for scalability, reliability, and field performance.

• Lead product cybersecurity risk assessment, requirements, and architecture by collaborating with product development teams

• Ensure software solutions comply with data privacy, governance & security best practices on AWS cloud.

But what else? (advantages, specificities, etc.)

Safran Cabin is #1 worldwide for aircraft interiors.

Here, you will build your skills and grow with a community of experts to enrich yourself every day.

Here, collaboration is embodied within the diversity of our teams all around the world.

Here, we're cutting our emissions, not your ambitions.

At Safran Cabin, we provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

• Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, and employee discounts & rewards for consumer products/services and more!

The expected salary range for this position is between $99,670 - $156,620 USD. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, education, and other factors permitted by law.

This job posting has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.

Candidate skills & requirements

Education:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience in a related field.

Experience:

9+ years of experience, 3+ years of experience in a leadership/management role, 3+ years of experience in aerospace / automotive / technology or similar industry.

Has experience with the entire end-to-end software development life cycle implementation:

• Design specifications, write documentation, define scope/limitations

• Work in both agile and waterfall development models.

• Effectively troubleshoot and debug issues that are technical or behavioral.

• Provide continuous meaningful improvements.

Strong knowledge of the full technology stack:

• Experience in data modeling, creating queries, stored procedures, triggers, and optimization for performance.

• Expert in object-oriented programming, parallel processing and design patterns including dependency injection.

• Experience in design and implementation of security, access control, and robust data validation.

• Experience in service-oriented architecture and integration of systems.

• Experience in implementation of fast and responsive user interface along with experience in integration of third-party framework and components.

• Experience in web application development.

Technical Skills (programming languages, protocols, technologies, frameworks):

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, SOAP, and XML

• Programming languages: C/C++, Python, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

• Databases: Any RDBMS, No-SQL Databases, and Vector DB

• Cloud technologies: AWS IoT, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, and other AWS technologies

• IoT technologies: Wi-Fi/BLE5.1/802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, MQTT/CoAP

• Computing technologies: NXP iMX6/8, ARM, STM32, Hardware Accelerators

• Configuration management: Git, GitHub, GitLab or SVN

• Productivity tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), JIRA

• DevOps & CI/CD: Experience with builds, GitHub/GitLab runners, AWS DevOps, Terraform for infrastructure automation.

Other Skills:

• Excellent collaboration and leadership skills.

• Able to use discretion and independent judgement when making decisions on behalf of the company.

• Effective oral and written communications skills.

• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects and assignments with attention to detail.

• Problem solving, well organized, detailed oriented and accurate.

Additional Preferred Skills: (not required)

• Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems.

• UI libraries: Telerik UI Libraries, jQuery UI, or similar.

• Object Relation Mapping frameworks: Entity, NHibernate or similar.

• Data Distribution Service (DDS) concepts for middleware architecture/designs

Annual salary

$99,670 - $156,620 USD DOE

Job location

Job location

North America, United States, California

City (-ies)

1620 Sunflower Avenue CA 92626 Costa Mesa

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Master Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 8 years

Additional Languages preferred

English (Fluent)

ITAR Controlled Position: Select "Yes" if role requires U.S. citizenship/permanent residency

No