Senior Flight Software Engineer
AST SpaceMobile11 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, integrate, and maintain embedded flight software from concept through spacecraft subsystem integration and deployment.
- Develop and support flight software for spacecraft command, control, telemetry, and related embedded functionality.
- Maintain HDL-based designs and integrate microcontroller-based software with FPGA, SoC, and spacecraft systems.
- Participate in software and system architecture, requirements definition, design tradeoffs, code reviews, testing, and technical documentation.
- Support hardware/software integration, verification, troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis across software and hardware interfaces.
- Collaborate with electrical, FPGA, systems, test, operations, and other engineering teams.
- Provide senior technical contribution and leadership while helping coordinate milestones, schedules, deliverables, and dependencies.
- Support existing spacecraft systems and development of future space-based platforms.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional experience in embedded software, firmware, flight software, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++, including C++11 or later.
- Experience with embedded, resource-constrained, multi-threaded, and real-time software environments.
- Experience with FPGAs and/or SoCs, HDL development, logic simulation, HDL verification, and hardware/software integration.
- Experience with RTOS environments, with familiarity with FreeRTOS or comparable systems.
- Experience with embedded interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, CAN, and SPI, plus debugging interfaces such as SWD and JTAG.
- Ability to use Linux command-line development tools and contemporary source-control, testing, code-review, issue-tracking, and continuous-integration workflows.
- Ability to read and troubleshoot circuit diagrams and electrical schematics and use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and multimeters.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent combinations of education and professional experience may be considered.
- Preferred experience includes STM32, Python, Bash, Ruby, CMake, Ninja, cross-compilation toolchains, aerospace or spacecraft systems, robotics, autonomous systems, and reliable or mission-critical embedded applications.
- Strong communication, collaboration, organization, technical leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
About AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile builds a space-based cellular broadband network that connects directly to standard smartphones, selling capacity to mobile network operators and government users. The public company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Midland, Texas, trades on NASDAQ. It has demonstrated direct 4G/5G voice and data links from its BlueWalker 3 test satellite and is developing commercial satellites to extend coverage to remote and underserved areas.