Staff Software Architect

About the role

Red 6 is seeking a Staff Software Architect to define, implement, and evolve software architectures for its Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS) and future platforms. This senior individual contributor works closely with engineering leadership, product management, and systems engineering to deliver mission‑ready, secure, and maintainable software.

Key responsibilities

• Define, document, and evolve software architectures across embedded software, real‑time rendering, simulation, mission systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, AI/ML services, and user applications.
• Design for mission‑critical performance, including latency, determinism, scalability, cybersecurity, reliability, maintainability, and operational resiliency.
• Align software architecture with system architecture, technical baselines, product roadmaps, interfaces, and verification plans.
• Develop modular, scalable, reusable architectures supporting defense standards such as MOSA, OMS/UCI, and FACE.
• Implement and certify safety‑critical code to DO‑178, AC 17‑01, or similar standards.
• Promote software design standards, architectural patterns, API practices, code quality, and secure development lifecycle.
• Contribute to modernization efforts: containerization, cloud‑native services, DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and software factory practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant expertise in software architecture or technical leadership.
• Experience in aerospace or similarly complex integrated hardware/software systems, including embedded, distributed, and real‑time applications.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Required skills

• Embedded systems, RTOS, embedded Linux, GPU computing, high‑performance software architectures.
• Real‑time graphics, rendering pipelines, computer vision, AR/VR/MR technologies.
• Microservices, event‑driven architectures, distributed systems, containerized applications, edge computing.
• DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, secure software development practices.
• Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, cloud‑native infrastructure.
• Safety‑critical certification standards (DO‑178, AC 17‑01) and defense standards (MOSA, OMS, FACE).

What we offer

• Base salary $150,000–$190,000 per year, dependent on skill and experience.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees).
• Paid time off, parental leave, holidays, and flexible spending account.
• 401(k) retirement plan and voluntary worksite benefits.
• Potential discretionary annual bonus based on performance.