About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of Position
- Evaluates, selects, and applies appropriate engineering techniques and procedures using judgment in making required adaptations and modifications to affect an accurate operating system.
- Fully autonomous in performing most assignments. Receives assistance only on unusual problems.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Designs, creates, and modifies and maintains applications, development frameworks, and systems level software. Creation of some new applications.
- Modifies and writes device drivers for interfacing with hardware.
- Creates and modifies real-time executive and control software.
- Designs, modifies, and creates mathematical support library, systems utilities, and debug packages under the direction of a more senior engineer.
- Evaluates hardware and software to be installed on FSI-SS computer systems. Provides reports and recommendations.
- Provides support to team leaders and project engineers in software requirements, design, and implementation.
- Provides guidance to less senior engineers in the department. Provides recommendations for improvements.
- Documents operating system, application and development software.
- Works with fellow software engineers, hardware engineers and management to affect a smoothly integrated system.
- Performs application design from research to testing phase with limited supervision.