Software Systems Engineer
Axiom Space2 days ago
Houston, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Author and manage functional, performance, safety, cybersecurity, and interface requirements using model-based methods.
- Maintain bidirectional requirements traceability from concepts of operations through system, software, design, and test stages.
- Lead requirements reviews, change control boards, and impact assessments.
- Define interface control documents, message schemas, timing budgets, and failure behaviors.
- Participate in software architecture trades involving partitioning, redundancy, data flows, and modes and states.
- Collaborate with avionics, network, FPGA, hardware, and software teams on end-to-end system integration.
- Plan and author verification methods and acceptance criteria across test, analysis, inspection, and demonstration.
- Support SIL/HIL environments, integration benches, laboratories, and flight or field test readiness.
- Support hazard analysis, fault-response definition, safety analyses, and criticality or DAL determinations.
- Communicate project status, progress, and risks to stakeholders and leadership.
- Apply and maintain agile project management practices throughout the project lifecycle.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency and the ability to pass a pre-employment background check and drug screening.
- Demonstrated experience authoring and managing software and system requirements across functional, performance, safety, and interface domains.
- Experience maintaining bidirectional requirements traceability and defining or managing interfaces and integration activities.
- Experience planning or executing verification through test, analysis, inspection, or demonstration.
- Proficiency with at least one requirements management tool such as Jama, DOORS, or Innoslate.
- Hands-on MBSE experience using SysML or an equivalent modeling language in a tool such as Cameo, Rhapsody, or Innoslate.
- Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and project or risk management practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, electrical, systems engineering, computer science, or another technical or engineering field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 10 years of systems engineering experience on software-intensive programs.
- Preferred qualifications include aerospace or human-rated and safety-critical program experience, SIL/HIL and test-readiness experience, safety-analysis experience, GitLab CI or equivalent DevSecOps/CI pipeline experience, Agile or hybrid program experience, and INCOSE membership or ASEP/CSEP certification.
- Must be able to work evenings and weekends as needed for critical project milestones and meet export-control screening requirements.
Tech Stack
GitLab CI/CD
Categories
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.