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Senior Engineer - Lead Engineer - RTOS M-F

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New Delhi, Delhi, India
Posted on Aug 26, 2025

Senior Engineer / Lead Engineer - RTOS M/F

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Company : Safran Electronics & Defense Services Job field : Software Location : New Delhi , India Contract type : Permanent Contract duration : Full-time Required degree : Bachelor's Degree Required experience : More than 8 years Professional status : Employees / Staff
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Job Description

The Software RTOS Senior Engineer, will be responsible for supporting a strong team of engineers working on hi-tech embedded applicative software in a provided project perimeter.

You will be part of Software Engineering Department which has multidisciplinary teams across multiple Safran sites working together to provide innovative, future products of high technological value in aeronautical, land and maritime industries.

You will work in close collaboration with the Reseach&Development headquarters of Safran Electronics and Defense in France. In the short term, you will join a task force dedicated to Low Level Testing.

You will have the responsibility of the Low Level Testing activities, by supporting your team directly. In this context you will be reporting directly to the Technical Manager and operationally to the Tech Lead.

Working with others, you shall responsible for:
- Ensuring the highest level of quality for Team deliverables in compliance with DO-178C;
- Providing help to the Team software engineers when stuck;
- Handling the more complex pieces of software via Architecture/Integration/Development;
- Challenge choices from the Management from a Technical standpoint by raising awareness on technical risks on challenging topics;
- Train upcoming new engineers with knowledge learned from the Technical Management.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electronics / Computers Science Engineering with minimum of 8 years' experience in aerospace industry (of which at least 3 are in an Expert role);
• Experience in handling team sizes of 10 and above;
• You know how to design architectures and integrate embedded software in a low-level environment tailored to the aeronautical industry with DO-178C;
• Experience in the support of software projects in fields constrained by aeronautical standards.

You are able to quickly understand technical challenges, including in fields of which you are not an expert of, and are likely to offer solution steps throughout their resolution.

Self-reliant, you illustrate yourself as a good communicator, dynamic, rigorous, organized, and show an ease in building professional relationships through teamwork.

Must have proven experience with:
- DO-178C;
- Low Level Testing/Low Level Requirements (like with RTRT/IBM RATIONAL TEST REALTIME STUDIO);
- Low-level software development (RTOS/Boot/Driver/Dataloader, compilation toolchain, debug tools);
- Architecture design;
- Software integration;
- Assembly & C proficiency;
- Knowledge of RTOS concepts, Real-time Services, Communication constraints, CPU & memory;
- Knowledge of embedded networks: CAN, A429, A664, RS4xx, Discrete, PWM, ADC, VDT, Internal mechanisms (DMA, Interruptions).
Nice to have experience with:
- High Level Testing/High Level Requirements (like with RTRT/IBM RATIONAL TEST REALTIME STUDIO);
- High-level software development (MBD/Simulink code generation and compliance with coding rules);
- Configuration & Change Management.

Company Information

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 Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.

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NH-8, Aerocity 110-037

New Delhi

India

100,000
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