Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer
Axiom Space1 hour 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.