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Quest Defense

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201 - 500 employees

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Aerospace • Defense

Quest Defense is a company specializing in providing advanced engineering solutions for the defense sector, particularly in the domains of air, land, sea, and space. They deliver mission-critical and safety-focused solutions, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, IoT, and digital threads throughout the product lifecycle to enhance efficiency, performance, and safety. Their expertise encompasses a wide range of services including mechanical engineering, engineering process optimization, and sustainment and product support. Quest Defense partners with leading defense organizations to meet the most challenging industry standards and demands, working on innovative technologies to optimize aerospace, naval, land, and space systems. The company is committed to diversity, inclusion, and maintaining high ethical standards in its operations.

📋 Description

• Architect, develop, and maintain development environments and automated CI/CD pipelines for safety-critical embedded software. • Integrate software development and verification activities into GitLab-based pipelines supporting the full software lifecycle. • Develop and maintain Docker containers, virtualized environments, and reusable development infrastructure. • Create automation scripts, test harnesses, and internal engineering tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual processes. • Support embedded software development across boot, application, and RTOS environments, including VxWorks and LynxOS. • Build and maintain tooling supporting DO-178C development, verification, traceability, and release activities. • Integrate and support tools for static analysis, code coverage, requirements verification, and timing analysis. • Design, debug, and document test environments and automated test solutions for product-line development. • Troubleshoot development environments, pipelines, embedded targets, and avionics networking issues. • Standardize development tools, test harnesses, workflows, and engineering processes across teams. • Develop documentation, work instructions, and training for engineering teams using new tools, pipelines, and environments. • Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity through automation, scripting, and emerging technologies.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related STEM discipline with 5+ years of relevant experience. • Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, or Bamboo. • Experience with containerized or virtualized development environments, including Docker. • Strong automation and scripting experience using Python, Bash, or a similar scripting language. • Experience developing engineering tools, test automation, or reusable development infrastructure. • Working knowledge of embedded software development environments, including build, integration, test, and release processes. • Experience supporting software development in a safety-critical or highly regulated environment. • Understanding of DO-178C software lifecycle processes, traceability, verification, and configuration management expectations. • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across software, tooling, pipeline, and development environment issues. • Ability to collaborate with software, systems, verification, and hardware teams. • U.S. Citizenship required. • Preferred: DO-178C DAL A, DO-330 tool qualification, VxWorks or LynxOS, GitLab CertDevOps pipelines, avionics networking protocols, static analysis, code coverage, requirements verification, timing-analysis tools, standardized test harnesses, technical documentation, AI-enabled tools, and aerospace certification processes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Employer-matched 401(k) • Certification assistance • Clear opportunities for advancement • Flexible, collaborative, and people-first workplace • Comprehensive medical, dental, life, and disability coverage • Professional development support • Flexible and friendly workplace