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This role will work closely with firmware, software, systems, hardware, DevOps, and verification teams to establish clear priorities, maintain execution cadence, identify and remove blockers, and drive work from definition through integration and verification.\nThis is a hands-on execution role in a fast-paced aerospace development environment. The successful candidate will understand how software is actually developed, integrated, tested, and released in complex hardware products and will be comfortable working across low-level embedded software, device drivers, firmware, automated test, DevOps infrastructure, and aircraft integration.\nThe Scrum Master will own the operating rhythm of the team while helping engineering leadership maintain visibility into scope, schedule, dependencies, risk, and delivery.\nResponsibilities\nLead Agile/Scrum execution for embedded software, firmware, DevOps, and software verification teams, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.\nPartner with engineering leads and product owners to maintain a prioritized, actionable backlog with clearly defined scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and completion criteria.\nDrive work to closure by identifying blockers, establishing owners and due dates, and following actions through completion.\nMaintain development plans and execution status across Jira, GitLab, Smartsheet, and Microsoft Project, ensuring that detailed team execution aligns with program-level milestones.\nCoordinate development activities spanning embedded firmware, low-level software, hardware abstraction layers, device drivers, communications interfaces, bootloaders, diagnostics, DevOps, test automation, and software verification.\nTrack dependencies between software, electrical hardware, systems engineering, GNC, test, manufacturing, and aircraft integration teams.\nSupport release planning, build and integration schedules, regression testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, aircraft testing, and production software releases.\nWork with engineering teams to define and maintain appropriate Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria, including code review, testing, documentation, integration, and verification requirements.\nUse GitLab and Jira data to monitor sprint health, backlog maturity, development throughput, defects, aging work, and release readiness.\nIdentify schedule, resource, technical, and integration risks early and ensure they are communicated and actively managed.\nSupport defect triage and prioritization across development, integration, verification, and flight-test activities.\nFacilitate cross-functional technical discussions when dependencies or competing priorities prevent execution.\nContinuously improve team processes while avoiding unnecessary ceremony or administrative overhead.\nHelp engineering leadership translate program milestones into executable software development plans and provide clear, fact-based status against those plans.\nPromote accountability, transparency, and predictable execution while maintaining the flexibility required in a rapidly evolving aircraft-development program.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n5+ years of experience supporting software or firmware development teams in aerospace, automotive, robotics, autonomous systems, industrial controls, or another complex hardware/software environment.\n3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, technical program manager, software project manager, engineering project manager, or similar execution-focused role.\nStrong working knowledge of Jira and GitLab, including backlogs, issues, boards, releases, defects, and development workflows.\nExperience developing and maintaining integrated schedules using Smartsheet and/or Microsoft Project.\nStrong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, code review, continuous integration, integration testing, verification, release, and defect management.\nExperience working with embedded software or firmware teams and enough technical understanding to follow discussions involving low-level software, drivers, hardware interfaces, communications 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