Senior Principal Software Engineer - Product Manager (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2026-01-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-TX-RICHARDSON-461 ~ 3200 E Renner Rd ~ RENNER BLDG 461

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance Type:

Secret - Current

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required on day 1

Senior Principal Software Engineer - Product Manager (Onsite)

Here at Collins Aerospace, we’re enhancing mission critical systems for our military to deter against current and future adversarial threats. The need for passionate engineers who want to make a difference is now! Our team develops strategic solutions to ensure Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) function accurately, on-time, every time, and under the most extreme circumstances for our national defense.  

We have an opportunity for a Senior Principal Software Product Manager (PM) to join a cohort of 20+ talented software engineers in developing our Very Low Frequency (VLF) transmitter solution for the military. The government has requested a need for greater cyber security threat protection, software assurance, improvement in availability and reliability while harnessing the latest technologies for rapid development and deployment.

What You Will Do:  

• Lead an established software team to mature design and development of our next generation VLF transmitter
• Collaborate with the customer, cross-functional engineering leads, system architects, and support services to enable an iterative spiral development through continuous feedback
• Coordinate with Product Owners (POs) for the three Agile software sub-teams to update the multi-year Feature Roadmap through development, integration, test, and deployment
• Facilitate discussions with the Software Architect and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to drive technical solutions to meet customer requirements as bound by the Security Classification Guide (SCG)
• Own and update scope, schedule, budget, risks, and opportunities with the Cost Account Manager (CAM) using Earned Value (EV) techniques
• Guide the development team in architectural best practices, modularity, code structure, and performance tradeoffs in real-time systems
• Support software requirements and Unified Modeling Language (UML) design diagrams within a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool
• Support development and integration of multi-threaded embedded software using C and C++ within a Real Time Operating System (RTOS)
• Support integration and verification within our automated test framework
• Support document updates to meet customer Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)
• Support bid activities for customer related Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)

What You Will Learn: 

• Full software development lifecycle within defense industry
• Agile development within a classified environment
• Integration and validation on a variety of hardware controller cards
• Best practices in secure software coding on embedded systems

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
• Experience leading a software development team within an Agile methodology
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), system decomposition, and interface control across disciplines
• Experience with software lifecycle processes, configuration control, and change management in high-integrity development environments

Qualifications We Prefer: 

• Experience with multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization in complex environments
• Experience in secure coding practices
• Experience with hardware-software integration and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
• Experience with development tool sets, including Jira, Git, Visual Studio Code, cmake
• Experience with Qt framework and development tools to generate C++ and QML code
• Experience with automated test frameworks, unit testing, and requirements traceability

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Col