Head of Software

The Company is seeking a Head of Software to establish and lead its software organization, owning architecture and hands-on development across aircraft software, communications payload controls, and ground and mission systems. Responsibilities include building and mentoring the engineering team, setting technical culture and development processes, and delivering mission control, telemetry, command, network orchestration, and operations tools. The role requires close collaboration with engineering and operations disciplines to integrate systems, while rapidly prototyping critical capabilities and evolving them into reliable software for long-duration operations. Candidates should have experience architecting and delivering software for complex physical or distributed systems, such as aerospace, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or cloud platforms. They should be comfortable working at both the system-architecture and implementation levels, with a record of recruiting, leading, and mentoring strong engineering teams in fast-moving environments. Relevant familiarity includes real-time or embedded systems, distributed systems, and high-reliability software practices. Strong first-principles problem-solving, initiative, and the ability to develop early prototypes into robust systems are valued; the listed qualifications are preferred rather than mandatory.