4 days ago
Pasadena, CA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$93k - $112k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement change requests, new requirements, and anomaly fixes for DSN telemetry processing software under guidance.
- Work on assigned priority anomaly reports and update JIRA as work progresses.
- Write and execute unit tests, provide test inputs and guidance, and help debug anomalies found during project interface tests.
- Contribute to requirements and design documents, software operations manuals, user guides, and other technical documentation.
- Provide mission and operations support as directed by the cognizant development engineer lead and DSN realtime operations.
- Learn TTC subsystems and data flows and follow DSN configuration management and change processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with at least 1 year of related experience, or a master's degree in a similar field with 0 years of related experience.
- Extensive understanding of one or more of C/C++, Java, Perl, or Python.
- Experience with XML and JSON data formats and exchange.
- Experience with network programming, including TCP/IP, sockets, and client-server models.
- Extensive understanding of Unix-based systems.
- Experience with static analysis tools, automated unit tests, application packaging, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Experience writing software design, delivery, and test documentation and participating in code reviews and technical interchanges.
- Preferred experience includes telemetry processing, SLE services, DSN interfaces, CCSDS telemetry ground processing, Solaris, database development, HTML, Django, Node.js, Jama, and TestRail.
- Preferred knowledge includes software design patterns, configuration management, basic electrical and electronic theory, and technical schematics.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, wellbeing, and retirement plans.
- Paid time off, learning programs, rideshare, childcare, flexible schedule, and parental leave.
- Benefits are effective on the first day of the month coincident with or immediately following the start date for benefits-eligible positions.
- The role is based in or associated with Pasadena, California.
About NASA JPL
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Pasadena, CA, managed by Caltech. It designs, builds, and operates robotic spacecraft and science instruments for NASA, and develops ground systems like the Deep Space Network; notable missions include the Mars rovers and the Voyager probes. Founded in 1936, JPL is publicly funded and focuses on planetary, Earth, and astrophysics research and flight operations.