5 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create embedded software architecture for real-time, fault-tolerant control of a 20kW-plus spacecraft.
- Develop embedded software for new hardware integrated throughout the satellite.
- Extend embedded software applications for managing satellite hardware and critical subsystems.
- Scale embedded software across satellite products by building software infrastructure and development processes.
- Debug complex hardware/firmware issues using JTAG, SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and custom debug hooks on the ground and in orbit.
- Mentor a diverse team of software engineers and establish embedded software best practices.
Requirements
- At least five years of embedded software development experience in Rust, C, or C++ targeting microcontrollers such as ARM or RISC-V.
- Strong understanding of a microcontroller’s memory subsystem, instruction pipeline, interrupt controller, and DMA controller.
- Experience collaborating with hardware engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex hardware/firmware issues.
- Experience with Rust in hard real-time systems, bare-metal environments, or RTOS environments is preferred.
- Experience developing peripheral drivers without vendor software is preferred.
- Spacecraft flight software development experience is preferred.
- Experience maintaining embedded software across multiple product revisions is preferred.
- Experience with software verification and testing methods is preferred.
- Experience with software and network performance analysis and debugging is preferred.
- Experience with fault-tolerant software design and implementation is preferred.
- Experience creating and maintaining hardware-in-the-loop and hardware-out-of-the-loop test systems is preferred.
- Must be a U.S. Person under ITAR rules or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export-control license.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Equity in the company
- U.S. Person or export-control license eligibility required for access to ITAR-controlled information and items
About K2 Space
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