About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of Position
Responsible for working on backend simulation framework libraries and tools. Evaluates, selects, and applies appropriate software engineering techniques and procedures using sound judgment to make required adaptations and modifications to provide a deterministic, real-time, computing environment. Fully autonomous in performing most assignments, receiving assistance only on unusual problems.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Designs, creates, and modifies and maintains applications, development frameworks, and systems level software. Creation of some new applications.
- Modifies and writes device drivers for interfacing with hardware.
- Creates and modifies real-time executive and control software.
- Designs, modifies, and creates mathematical support library, systems utilities, and debug packages under the direction of a more senior engineer.
- Provides support to team leaders and project engineers in software requirements, design, and implementation
- Documents operating system, application, and development software
- Works with fellow software engineers, hardware engineers and management to affect a smoothly integrated system.
- Provides guidance to less experienced engineers in the department
- Provides recommendations for improvements
- Performs application design from research to testing phase with limited supervision
- Interact within a cooperative environment through beneficial behavior, commitment to common goals, contribution to problem solving, communication of ideas and suggestions, and encouragement to other employees and departments.
- Accountable for the control and distribution of documents and/or equipment subject to export control restrictions and the security of FSI materials, projects and business information regarding the methods and techniques used in the production and usage of FSI products.
- Able to make effective technical presentations to parties both within and outside of FlightSafety International Simulations