Group Lead, Embedded Software

<p><strong>Job Overview </strong></p> <p>The Embedded Systems Group Lead serves both as lead engineer and as a technical manager. The Group Lead provides both technical direction and organizational leadership for the embedded systems software engineering team developing advanced autonomy, control, and mission systems for AEVEX’s UAS platforms. This individual serves as an in-house expert, both for managers from other departments who need software solutions and the less experienced staff within the department. The Embedded Systems Group Lead serves as the primary leader and advocate for the software engineering team representing their needs, removing roadblocks, and acting as their voice to program management, customers, and company leadership. This role bridges technical execution and strategic alignment ensuring that software deliverables meet mission, schedule, and quality objectives while fostering a high-performance engineering culture. The Group Lead looks at different possible solutions and how feasible those options are. The Group Lead will oversee multiple concurrent projects, day-to-day leadership of engineers, resource management, and serve as the primary interface between the software team and program management, systems engineering, flight test, customers, and company leadership. The Group Lead is also responsible for keeping proprietary information confidential.</p> <p><strong>Essential Functions </strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead a multidisciplinary software engineering group responsible for embedded, autonomy, and ground-station UAS software development.</li> <li>Manage team workload, task assignment, and performance across multiple concurrent programs.</li> <li>Balance staffing, priorities, and technical focus to meet both near-term deliverables and long-term capability growth.</li> <li>Interface with Flight Test, Systems Engineering, and Hardware teams to ensure system-level integration and rapid iteration.</li> <li>Serves as the primary interface between software engineering, program management, customers, and executives.</li> <li>Coordinates seamlessly with systems, hardware, and test teams to deliver integrated UAS capabilities</li> <li>Implement networked and containerized system design.</li> <li>Provide cradle-to-grave ownership of software developed after release, including updates, support, and technical oversight.</li> <li>Integrate and maintain real-time systems for flight-critical and autonomy software components.</li> <li>Design and oversee integration of sensors, GPS/INS fusion, and communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, TCP/UDP).</li> <li>Develop and maintain software for embedded Linux and microcontroller-based systems using C, C++, and Python and occasionally other programming languages (C#, Lua, etc).</li> <li>Gui