Software Engineer in Hood River, Oregon at Advanced Navigation and Positioning Corporation

Job Summary

ANPC is a global supplier of precision approach guidance and area surveillance solutions aimed at improving the safety and capacity of civil and military aviation for customers on all seven continents. Our transponder-based solutions are designed to serve airfields where others cannot. We are a team of extraordinary professionals working together to perform an important mission to uniquely serve airports with terrain, obstacles and other challenges that no other business can provide.

As a Software Engineer at ANPC, you will be an integral part of our engineering team, developing real-time, safety-critical software applications. You will play a key role in a multi-year product evolution, directly impacting the safety and reliability of our systems.

Essential Job Functions

• Help drive a multi-year transition of our legacy architecture from single-core processes to a modern, single multi-core chipset solution.

• Refine system requirements into robust software requirements, ensuring the software performs flawlessly under all foreseeable operating conditions.

• Participate in designing a modular hardware/software architecture, utilizing partitioning strategies to optimize compliance with Design Assurance Level (DAL) constraints.

• Author high-quality software detailed design documentation and ensure strict requirements traceability across the lifecycle, aligned with DO-278A and DO-330 standards.

• Embrace Agile methodologies by creating/sizing stories, managing product backlogs, and actively participating in continuous integration and automated verification activities.

Education and Work Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related engineering discipline.

• Experience developing and leveraging modular system and software architectures and creating downstream software detailed design, coding, and verification plan, procedure, and report artifacts.

Core Requirements (Must Have)

• Systems Programming: Strong, hands-on proficiency in C or C++.

• Embedded & Firmware Development: Solid understanding of the hardware/software boundary, including bare-metal development, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and device driver implementation.

• Technical Writing: Proven ability to author clear, concise, and unambiguous software requirements and high-quality design artifacts with minimal editorial oversight for certification submittals.

• Modern Methodologies: Experience working within Agile product development frameworks, modular/incremental development practices, and continuous integration workflows.

Highly Valued & "Nice to Have" Skills

• Application & UI Development: Experience with C#, the .NET framework, and Win UI, including a foundational understanding of desktop UI/UX design principles.

• Operating Systems: Familiarity with POSIX, Unix, or Linux environments.

• Hardware & Scripting Integration: Exposure to FPGA integration and standard system bus architectures (e.g., AXI protocols). Proficiency in Python for automation, testing, or scripting.

• Regulatory Standards: Familiarity with safety-critical software standards and compliance paths (e.g., DO-178C, DO-278A, or DO-330).

• Legacy Codebases: Experience refactoring, modernizing, and maintaining complex legacy hardware/firmware codebases.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job in an office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. Employee is exposed to the typical office environment with computers, printers and telephones.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job in an office environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Essential functions may require maintaining the physical condition necessary for sitting, walking or standing for periods of time; operating a computer and keyboard; talk and hear at normal room levels; using hands to finger, grasp, and feel; repetitive motion; close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; lift, push, carry, or pull up to 20 pounds.

In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of:

• 401(k) plan with match and immediate vesting.

• Comprehensive suite of insurance benefits for employees (and their families) to include a variety of medical plan options (including an HSA with employer contribution), dental, vision, life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Legal/Identity support plans, pet insurance.

• Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care).

• Generous paid time off including 4 weeks of vacation per year, 11 paid company holidays, which includes a winter company shutdown from Christmas to New Year’s.