Software and Performance Engineer 

Savannah, GA

Help Build the Software Behind the Flight

Bring your software engineering skills closer to the aircraft.

Join Gulfstream’s Flight Sciences team and help develop, test, and certify flight-critical software supporting fly-by-wire flight controls, aircraft performance, and mission planning.

You’ll work with MATLAB, Simulink, and Python while collaborating with engineers across Flight Sciences, Labs, and Flight Test. Your work will span the development lifecycle, from requirements and modeling through simulation, integration testing, flight testing, and certification.

Experienced Opportunity

This position requires relevant professional experience. To be considered, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you meet the minimum qualifications listed below.

If you are beginning your engineering career, please explore our Early-Career Engineering Opportunities

Your Opportunity

You’ll join an established 11-person team, giving you experienced teammates to learn from as you get familiar with Gulfstream’s systems and development environment.

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of software engineering, flight controls, aircraft performance, and real-world aircraft testing, solving complex problems that directly support Gulfstream aircraft.

What You Will Do

• Develop and support certification of safety-critical software for fly-by-wire flight control systems.
• Develop software supporting aircraft performance prediction and mission planning.
• Create and refine software requirements and apply model-based design techniques.
• Perform verification and validation through desktop simulation, software integration labs, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight testing.
• Develop simulation models and automation scripts for software and hardware integration labs.
• Support compliance with DO-178C, DO-331, and ARP4754.
• Improve automated testing frameworks and engineering analysis tools.
• Collaborate across Flight Sciences, Labs, Flight Test, and other engineering teams.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 Days

• Build relationships with your team and key stakeholders.
• Learn the software systems, tools, and development environment.
• Become familiar with current projects, processes, and priorities.

By 90 Days

• Begin contributing directly to software development.
• Start developing scripts and working in Simulink.
• Apply your growing knowledge to meaningful project work.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• 5 years of experience in a specific technical discipline or 10 years of broad engineering experience across several technical disciplines with a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with MATLAB and Simulink.
• Proficiency with Python, including object-oriented programming.
• Experience with software testing and process automation.
• Experience with aerospace system test development and results analysis in a simulation or integration test environment.
• Strong understanding of flight controls, closed-loop systems, and controller performance tuning.
• Understanding of aircraft flight characteristics, first-principles analysis, and aircraft performance methods.
• Strong coding, technical writing, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently solve complex technical problems.

Advanced degrees applicable to the role may receive experience credit of up to 2 years for a master’s degree and 4 years for a PhD.

Preferred Experience

• Systems engineering, including requirements management, verification, validation, change management, process assurance, and functional integration.
• ARP4754A and DO-178.
• Model-based engineering using MathWorks Simulink or similar tools.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Unix/Linux environments.
• Advanced degree in an engineering-related field.

Apply Now

If you’re looking for an opportunity to take your software engineering skills beyond the desktop and into the development of advanced aircraft, we’d like to hear from you.

Join Gulfstream and help us create and deliver the world’s finest aviation experience.