Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer
Axiom Space6 months ago
Houston, TX, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Develop, integrate, and maintain firmware and flight software for spacecraft subsystems and avionics.
- Implement flight hardware features and algorithms in RTOS, bare-metal, and resource-constrained environments.
- Develop communication interfaces using UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, or similar technologies.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers on board bring-up, driver development, and hardware/software debugging.
- Contribute to software architecture, code reviews, continuous integration, unit testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and simulation-based verification.
- Support system integration, environmental testing, pre-flight validation, troubleshooting, and resolution of performance, memory, timing, and reliability issues.
- Produce system documentation including interface control documents, design artifacts, test reports, and operational procedures.
- Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership.
- Work evenings and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- 4 to 9 years of professional experience in embedded systems, firmware, or flight software development.
- Experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers, processors, or SoCs used in aerospace or industrial applications.
- Hands-on experience with RTOS, firmware development, low-level programming, hardware bring-up, JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and embedded toolchains.
- Proficiency with C and C++, version control, build systems, and continuous integration pipelines.
- Understanding of real-time constraints, deterministic execution, and safe, reliable embedded design principles.
- Experience with SPI, I2C, and UART peripherals and software development in Linux environments.
- Experience with VxWorks is preferred but not required.
- Ability to complete a U.S. government background investigation.
- Proof of U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent residency.
Benefits
- Office-based work environment that may involve indoor or outdoor work depending on the task.
- Evening and weekend availability may be required for critical project milestones.
- Work may involve extended sitting or standing and lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds.
About Axiom Space
Axiom Space builds and operates commercial human spaceflight services and orbital infrastructure, including Axiom Station, a planned commercial successor to the ISS. The company sells private astronaut missions plus in‑space research and manufacturing opportunities, and it develops NASA’s next‑generation lunar EVA spacesuit under the xEVAS contract. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Houston, it is privately held and will first attach station modules to the ISS before operating a standalone platform.