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Join a company that's reintroducing itself to the aviation community we've helped advance for more than a century. At Honeywell Aerospace (NASDAQ: HONA), we're launching as an independent, publicly traded aerospace and defense company built on a legacy of operational excellence and mission-focused execution.
Our new brand identity pairs that heritage with real momentum, as we build technology that helps pilots navigate with confidence, aircraft operate more efficiently, and operators stay ahead of change. With our systems on board 90% of the world's aircraft, your work here has reach that's rare to find anywhere else.
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Electronic Solutions:
Honeywell Aerospace products and services are found on aircraft across commercial aviation, defense and space — from engines and cockpit electronics to cabin systems, mechanical components and connectivity solutions. Our technology helps operators fly more safely, reduce fuel consumption, improve on-time performance and deliver a better experience for the people on board.
As aviation continues to evolve, we're also developing systems to support autonomous and supersonic platforms, bringing the same focus on safety and efficiency to the next era of flight. With approximately 36,000 employees worldwide and net sales of $17.4B in 2025, Honeywell Aerospace is one of the largest dedicated aerospace companies in the world. Explore our businesses: https://www.honeywellaerospace.com
Electronic Solutions develops the avionics, navigation systems, sensors and electromagnetic defense technology that help aircraft perform safely and with precision. Our systems are on board 90% of the world's aircraft — serving commercial aviation, defense and space operators from integrated flight deck platforms with 30-plus years in service to radiation-hardened systems trusted for human spaceflight.
As the Principal AI/ML Verification and Validation Engineer, you will lead the strategy, architecture, and implementation of verification frameworks for AI-enabled avionics systems. You will define methods for assuring AI/ML components in safety-critical environments, support certification activities aligned with DO-178C and DO-330 expectations, and drive automation across the V&V lifecycle.
This role bridges traditional safety-critical engineering and modern AI/ML practices by improving traceability, test automation, robustness evaluation, and evidence generation. You will partner with software, systems, safety, and certification teams to build scalable assurance workflows that improve verification efficiency, strengthen compliance readiness, and support timely program delivery.
Responsibilities- Define AI/ML V&V strategy: Lead verification and validation approaches for AI-enabled airborne software, including planning, traceability, test coverage, robustness evaluation, and evidence generation aligned with certification objectives.
- Architect automation frameworks: Design and deploy scalable V&V workflows and CI/CD pipelines that support model validation, software integration, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and regression execution.
- Advance AI-augmented assurance: Develop or guide tools that improve requirement-to-test traceability, support test generation, identify anomalous results, and prioritize verification effort using data-driven methods where appropriate.
- Lead tool qualification activities: Support qualification planning and evidence development for verification tools under DO-330 and help establish confidence in automated workflows used in regulated environments.
- Drive robustness and explainability methods: Establish approaches for adversarial testing, corner-case analysis, formal methods, uncertainty evaluation, and model interpretability where traditional structural coverage methods may be insufficient for AI/ML behavior.
- Collaborate across engineering functions: Partner with software, systems, safety, test, and certification teams to align technical approaches, certification artifacts, and program milestones.
- Influence standards and mentor teams: Provide technical leadership, define best practices, and mentor engineers working on AI/ML assurance in safety-critical programs.
- Experience: 12+ years of experience in software verification and validation, safety-critical software engineering, or a closely related field.
- Certification knowledge: Deep understanding of DO-178B/C software lifecycle objectives and practical experience supporting certification or compliance activities in regulated environments.
- AI/ML assurance background: Experience verifying, testing, or assuring AI/ML systems, including areas such as computer vision, deep learning, or reinforcement learning.
- Programming skills: Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python, with hands-on experience building test automation, analysis workflows, or supporting tooling.
- Verification methods: Strong foundation in statistical verification, uncertainty quantification, robustness testing, and formal or semi-formal analysis methods.
- Toolchain familiarity: Experience with established V&V tools such as VectorCAST, LDRA, or Parasoft, along with modern automation and scripting practices.
- DevOps/MLOps exposure: Experience with CI/CD, containerized test environments, and data or model versioning practices used to support traceability and repeatability.
- Collaboration and leadership: Demonstrated ability to work across engineering disciplines and provide technical leadership on complex, high-assurance programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- AI-enabled test engineering: Experience building or applying AI/ML techniques to improve requirement-to-test traceability, test generation, anomaly detection, or verification workflow efficiency.
- Regulatory familiarity: Exposure to FAA or EASA guidance related to machine learning, software assurance, or tool qualification in safety-critical environments.
- MLOps for regulated systems: Experience with tools such as DVC, MLflow, Docker, or Kubernetes to support reproducible, traceable, and controlled validation workflows.
- Simulation and synthetic data: Hands-on experience with digital twin, simulation, or model-based environments such as MATLAB/Simulink, Unreal Engine, AirSim, or similar platforms.
- Formal methods and static analysis: Familiarity with approaches or tools such as Polyspace, Astrée, abstract interpretation, or SMT solvers for verifying software properties.
- Legacy integration experience: Experience connecting modern Python-based automation or AI testing frameworks with established V&V toolchains used for C, C++, or Ada systems.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in software verification and validation, safety-critical software engineering, or related field
- Deep understanding of DO-178B/C software lifecycle objectives and experience supporting certification or compliance activities
- Experience verifying, testing, or assuring AI/ML systems (e.g., computer vision, deep learning, reinforcement learning)
- Proficiency in C and C++
- Proficiency in Python for test automation and tooling
- Strong foundation in statistical verification, uncertainty quantification, robustness testing, and formal or semi-formal analysis methods
- Familiarity with V&V toolchains such as VectorCAST, LDRA, or Parasoft
- Experience with CI/CD, containerized test environments, and data/model versioning for traceability and repeatability
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across software, systems, safety, test, and certification teams and provide technical leadership
- Experience supporting tool qualification activities under DO-330
- Experience or familiarity integrating with legacy avionics languages/systems (C, C++, Ada)
- Experience applying AI/ML techniques to test generation, traceability, anomaly detection, or verification workflow automation
- Exposure to FAA or EASA guidance related to machine learning, software assurance, or tool qualification
- Experience with MLOps tools such as DVC, MLflow, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with simulation, digital twin, or synthetic data platforms (MATLAB/Simulink, Unreal Engine, AirSim)
- Familiarity with formal methods and static analysis tools (Polyspace, Astree, abstract interpretation, SMT solvers)
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
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What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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