10 hours ago
Base Salary
$146k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain flight software for a growing satellite constellation.
- Collaborate with electrical, FPGA, and ground software engineers to integrate hardware and software.
- Lead code reviews and mentor teammates through high-standard technical feedback.
- Write and maintain unit and integration tests for software robustness and reliability.
- Develop software documentation and provide cross-training to team members.
- Troubleshoot and resolve software issues, including during live on-orbit operations.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle from requirements analysis through deployment.
- Support integration and operations teams with software-related questions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of relevant, hands-on engineering experience.
- Ability to support designs through schematic review, architecture, implementation, integration, and testing.
- Experience with real-time embedded systems, hardware/software integration, and low-level drivers.
- Hands-on experience developing, testing, and debugging hard real-time software using bare-metal systems or an RTOS.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux, Linux kernel modules, and standard Linux tools.
- Strong knowledge of compiled languages such as C and C++ and scripted languages such as Python and shell script.
- Experience developing software for microcontrollers and embedded systems such as Xilinx Zynq SoCs.
- Familiarity with software configuration management.
- Hands-on experience using lab equipment and electronics hardware such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
Benefits
- Role may be based in Louisville, Colorado, or San Francisco, with the option to work remotely a few days per week.
- Travel is expected to be up to 5%.
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid holidays, parental and adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
- The role offers direct ownership of flight software operating on satellites and participation in a quantum-secured space network initiative.
About IonQ
IonQ builds trapped-ion quantum computers and offers access to them via major cloud platforms and direct systems for enterprise and research users. The public company (NYSE: IONQ), founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, sells quantum hardware, cloud services, and development tools used in areas like materials modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Its systems are available through AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google Cloud Marketplace.