Manager, Mission Software

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before. Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

Overview In this role, you'll lead and grow the team responsible for the software closest to the mission itself — what the crew touches, what the vehicle decides, and what the vehicle tells us. As Manager, Mission Software , you'll own that domain end to end across every REGENT vehicle program, building the team and the software foundation that turn a Seaglider from hardware into a system a crew can safely operate and a company can learn from. The scope spans four connected areas. Crew and cabin systems software covers cockpit displays and crew alerting, audio, environmental control, and the doors, lighting, and cabin systems people interact with directly. Mission and autonomy applications covers mission, vehicle, and route management, and the vehicle-side interface our autonomy stack plugs into. Test and ground systems covers instrumentation, telemetry, the ground station our test crews work from, and the data lifecycle that turns a test day into engineering answers. And the vehicle software platform and operations covers vehicle health monitoring, data management and streaming, communications, and how software gets released, deployed, monitored, and updated on a vehicle. You'll lead this across programs at very different stages at the same time: prototypes flying and testing today, and our first certified production vehicle, where the crew interface carries a formal design assurance level and the evidence burden that comes with it. Success means a team and a software foundation that serve both realities at once — fast iteration where we're still learning, and the rigor and traceability certification demands where it counts. If you've built and led software teams before, and you want the challenge of owning the systems a crew depends on for a brand-new category of transportation, this is the role for you!

Build the group. Propose the structure, hire the experts each area needs, and develop them once they're here. Set the standards and ownership boundaries the group works to. This is the mandate, not a side effect of it. Stay hands-on where it counts. Review the code and systems your team ships, and write them when that's what the situation calls for. This is the part of the job that shrinks as the team grows, and it does not shrink to zero. Set direction across the four areas. Decide what gets built once and reused, what diverges by vehicle, what we deliberately don't build yet, and which area gets your attention in a given quarter. Match rigor to criticality. Certification-grade evidence and review discipline on crew-facing software, fast iteration where iteration is what wins, and release and deployment mechanisms that suit each. Carry the crew interface to certifiable. Work with our certification team to take cockpit displays from prototype to safety-rendered flight software, and own the evidence that comes with it. Support test operations. Your team is on console when the vehicle is operating, and the standard is a test day turned into engineering answers inside 24 hours. Integrate across the vehicle. Partner with controls, embedded, simulation, autonomy,