Flight Software Engineer
Barrios Technology, LLC3 months ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and operationally support flight software for critical spaceflight systems.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers and subsystem teams on hardware/software integration, design trades, and integrated testing.
- Debug embedded systems using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other signal measurement tools.
- Perform software performance analysis and verification for integrated hardware/software systems.
- Conduct hardware-in-the-loop testing and validate embedded-system behavior in laboratory and test environments.
- Contribute to risk identification, fault analysis, mitigation, Agile planning, integration, verification, milestones, and program reviews.
- Support system-level integration and troubleshooting across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Technology, or Math from an accredited school.
- Five years of related software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming, including C or C++.
- Experience with firmware, embedded software, hardware/software integration, serial and packet-based communication protocols, and Git-based platforms.
- Hands-on embedded-system debugging experience using electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Ability to collaborate independently across cross-disciplinary engineering teams, with strong communication, coordination, and presentation skills.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation.
- Preferred qualifications include human spaceflight or exploration experience, embedded software frameworks, device-driver development, SpaceWire, logging and diagnostics architectures, xUnit, Windows, POSIX-based systems, Docker, Agile/Scrum, CMMI frameworks, and a STEM master’s degree.
Benefits
- Generally an office-based role that may involve indoor or outdoor work, commuting, travel to other installations, and work outside normal hours during peak periods.
- Requires regular attendance, extended periods of sitting, occasional lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds, and mobility within test facilities.
- Post-offer, pre-employment drug testing is required.
- The employer describes a people-focused culture supporting professional growth and work-life balance.
About Barrios Technology, LLC
Barrios Technology is a privately held, woman-owned aerospace engineering services firm that provides mission operations, systems engineering, software, and program integration to government and commercial spaceflight customers. A long-standing NASA prime contractor, it supports human spaceflight programs including the International Space Station, Orion, and the Space Launch System. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Houston, the company focuses on work at Johnson and Marshall Space Flight Centers.