Flight Software Engineer

Team: Engineering

Location: United States

Commitment: Contract

Workplace Type: remote

Flight Software - 75%

• Upgrade existing flight software for new missions.
• Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for customer satellite platforms.
• Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops.
• Develop and execute flight software tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.
• Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environment and eventual flight hardware.
• Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.

Systems Modeling - 15%

• Contribute to the development of systems- and mission-level modeling and simulation tools.
• Develop software models of payloads for ground testing.
• Support development of software model of satellite platform, particularly ensuring accurate representation of the flight software.

Additional Responsibilities - 10%

• Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors.
• Support proposal writing, new business
• Assess the software impacts of new hardware, conops, and missions.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
• Preferred: Masters in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years with a bachelors degree, or 6 years with a masters degree.
• Proven track-record of working with aerospace hardware and/or software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations.

Skills:

• Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently.
• Proficiency in C/C++
• Expertise in one or more of the following:
• Embedded software development.
• Device driver development and software/hardware interfaces.
• Real-time operating systems programming, debugging, and testing.
• Cybersecurity.
• GNC algorithms design, analysis, testing, and implementation.
• Functional validation of embedded software on hardware.
• Software safety assurance.
• Network topology and configuration.
• Simulators: numerical, emulator, and hardware in the loop.
• Software requirements and configuration management.
• US Citizenship is required